Wednesday, 30 April 2025

House Oversight Chairman DENIES Democrats’ Request for Taxpayer-Funded El Salvador Trip: “Pay For It Yourself!”

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House Oversight Chairman James Comer has denied a request from two Democrat Representatives who sought approval of funds to visit Kilmar Abrego Garcia in El Salvador.

Reps. Robert Garcia and Maxwell Frost had asked to receive funds from the Congressional budget (that’s taxpayer money) to fly down to El Salvador and meet with alleged MS-13 gang member and wife-beater Abrego Garcia.

Comer bluntly shut down the request, telling the Democrat Congressmen that he will “not approve a single dime of taxpayer funds” to be used for such a purpose. He noted that Democrat Sen. Van Hollen already visited Abrego Garcia.

“If you also wish to meet with him, you can spend your own money,” he stated.

Well said.

Take a look:

From The Washington Examiner:

A House committee chair told Democrats if they want to make the pilgrimage to El Salvador to visit MS-13 gang suspect Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they’ll have to foot the bill on their own.

Rep. James Comer, who leads the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, told two Democrats he won’t authorize taxpayer funding to cover a trip they’d signaled they wanted to make.

He called it “absurd” for Reps. Robert Garcia of California and Maxwell Frost of Florida to want taxpayers to pay for a trip “to meet with foreign gang members.”

“I will not approve a single dime of taxpayer funds for use on the excursion you have requested,” the Kentucky Republican told the two Democrats.

Mr. Abrego Garcia was an illegal immigrant to the U.S. whom an immigration judge found likely to have been a member of MS-13. Another immigration judge ordered him deported, but also found that because he claimed to have been threatened by the gang Barrio 18 when he had previously lived in El Salvador, he could not be sent back to that specific country.

The New York Post added:

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (R-Ky.) ripped two Democratic reps on Friday for trying to fleece his panel’s budget for a taxpayer-funded trip to meet an alleged MS-13 gang member whose deportation to an El Salvador megaprison has become a rallying point for critics of President Trump’s immigration agenda.

Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) on Tuesday asked for Comer to approve funding for flights down to CECOT, the massive prison that began housing thousands of gang members apprehended in the Central American nation amid a sweeping crime crackdown in 2022 — and has since begun holding accused criminal migrant deportees from the US.

But the GOP Oversight chairman denied their request to meet with the purported MS-13 gangbanger Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Friday letter obtained by The Post shows.

“It is absurd that you both displayed active hostility for over two years toward the Committee’s oversight of the Biden Border Crisis and the consequences of millions of illegal aliens entering the country, yet now, you are seeking travel at Committee expense to meet with foreign gang members,” Comer said.

“You may be pleased to know that a Democrat senator, Chris Van Hollen, was photographed just yesterday in El Salvador enjoying margaritas garnished with cherry slices with the foreign gang member your letter references,” he added.

“If you also wish to meet with him, you can spend your own money. But I will not approve a single dime of taxpayer funds for use on the excursion you have requested.”

This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport.

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