Horn picks Pelosi over Dreamers, government workers
Hey there –
Accidental Congresswoman Kendra Horn continued to ignore the will of Oklahomans this weekend, joining Nancy Pelosi and other radical House Democrats in rejecting President Trump’s compromise plan to reopen the government and provide legal protections for DACA recipients, while offering no counterproposal.
By refusing to even negotiate to reopen the government, Horn and her extremist colleagues are showing that the most important priority for them isn’t securing the border, finding a solution to protect Dreamers or even getting a paycheck to government workers – it’s opposing President Trump at all costs.
NRCC Comment: “Kendra Horn promised Oklahomans she would be a voice of reason in Washington, but it turns out that was just an election year lie. By refusing to even negotiate with President Trump, Horn and her radical colleagues are demonstrating they aren’t serious about getting the government back to work.” – NRCC Spokesman Bob Salera
In case you missed it…
U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn rejects Trump proposal, calls for ‘permanent solution’ to DACA
News OK
Chris Casteel
1/21/2019
https://newsok.com/article/
U.S. Rep. Kendra Horn on Sunday rejected President Donald Trump’s new offer for border wall funding, saying three years of protection for children brought to the country illegally was only a temporary solution.
“We have voted repeatedly to open the government back up and this offer — I’m concerned that the offer about DACA is only a temporary offer,” the freshman Democrat said at her Oklahoma City office.
“I think that it is really important when we’re solving this DACA issue that we offer a permanent solution.”
Horn said the monthlong partial shutdown of the federal government was severely harming families in her congressional district and across the country, and she called out Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, for not allowing senators to vote to open up the government.
Democrats control the House, while Republicans control the Senate. Democrats oppose the president’s wish for nearly $6 billion to build a wall along the southern border.
Horn’s position put her at odds with some Republicans in the seven-person congressional delegation from Oklahoma. Sen. James Lankford, R-Oklahoma City, and three GOP congressman have stated publicly that Trump’s offer represented legitimate compromise and presented an opportunity to negotiate in good faith.
U.S. Rep. Kevin Hern, a freshman Republican from Tulsa, said, “Tuesday is the deadline to reopen the government before 800,000 federal workers miss another paycheck. President Trump has laid out a reasonable offer. It’s now up to the Democrats to come to the table and take meaningful action to end the shutdown.”
Trump on Saturday offered three years of protection for so-called Dreamers, children who were brought to the country illegally and have stayed under the policy known as DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. Democrats prefer citizenship for Dreamers.
Trump’s offer would also apply to immigrants with temporary protected status.
Democratic leaders rejected the offer, but McConnell is expected to seek a Senate vote this week.
Horn’s district includes thousands of FAA workers and others who aren’t being paid, including TSA screeners.
“We are asking the people who protect us to work without being paid and that’s not right,” she said Sunday. “We have real issues that we have to address. But we can’t do so while our government offices are shuttered and we’re requiring people to work without pay.”
Horn, of Oklahoma City, represents most of Oklahoma County and Pottawatomie and Seminole counties.
National lawmakers will be back in session Tuesday. Horn said Democratic House members are talking to each other and leaders about ways to reopen closed parts of the government.
Horn has been meeting with affected families, and she talked to some in her office on Sunday.
She said, “And one of the things that people I met with today said is that we don’t just have government offices that are being shuttered; there are families that are being shattered by this shutdown.”