{"id":59163,"date":"2025-04-19T19:54:13","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T23:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59163"},"modified":"2025-04-19T19:54:13","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T23:54:13","slug":"guarding-the-taxpayers-purse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=59163","title":{"rendered":"Guarding The Taxpayers’ Purse"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Daily Wire<\/a> posted an article about Congressional trips to El Salvador.<\/p>\n

The article reports:<\/p>\n

Republican leaders in the House have denied requests by Democrats to approve congressional trips to check on deportees at a mega prison in El Salvador.<\/strong><\/p>\n

With a post to X on Friday, House Oversight Chairman James Comer (R-KY) revealed a letter in which he told a pair of Democrats that he was rejecting their demand<\/a> for authorization of a Congressional Member Delegation (CODEL) to visit the Terrorism Confinement Center or CECOT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cIf Democrats wish to travel to El Salvador and meet with a foreign illegal MS-13 gang member, they can spend their own money to do so,\u201d Comer said<\/a> in his social media post that showed a screenshot of the letter. \u201cI will not approve a single dime of Oversight Committee taxpayer funds for use on the excursion Democrats have requested.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The article concludes:<\/p>\n

The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Rep.\u00a0Mark Green (R-TN), similarly rebuffed multiple Democrats pushing for a visit with Abrego Garcia.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere is no excuse for Democrats to waste taxpayer dollars visiting and defending a transnational gang member and reported domestic abuser,\u201d Green said in a statement<\/a> on Thursday.\u00a0\u201cIf Democrats care so much about defending this individual, they can use their own personal credit cards \u2014 not taxpayers\u2019 money \u2014 to virtue-signal to their radical base.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yet another committee leader, House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith (R-MO), recently shared photos of a trip he took to CECOT.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThanks to President Trump, the CECOT prison in El Salvador, which is home to some of the country\u2019s most vicious criminals, now includes illegal immigrants who broke into our country and committed violent acts against Americans,\u201d Smith said. \u201cIt is unconscionable that Democrats in Congress are urging the release of more foreign criminals back into our country.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The people in this prison are NOT American citizens. They are people who came into our country and committed crimes. Why haven’t I seen this amount of concern for the American hostages held by Hamas?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Friday, The Daily Wire posted an article about Congressional trips to El Salvador. The article reports: Republican leaders in the House have denied requests by Democrats to approve congressional trips to check on deportees at a mega prison in … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[4324,17931,7809,17932,11823],"class_list":["post-59163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-el-salvador","tag-house-oversight-chairman-james-comer","tag-ms-13","tag-terrorism-confinement-center-cecot","tag-the-daily-wire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59163"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59164,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59163\/revisions\/59164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}