Paul Ryan continues to roll out his “Vision for a Confident America.” We discussed earlier the section outlining how the GOP leadership plans to alleviate poverty, though what that plan is or how they would implement it is unclear.
While updating the Senate intelligence committee today, CIA Director, John Brennan, said that ISIS is training operatives and attempting to enter the U.S. through “refugee flows, smuggling routes and legitimate methods of travel”.
Reps. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.), Steve King (R-Iowa), and Pete Sessions (R-Texas) pushed for passage of the Gosar and King amendments to the National Defense Appropriations Act on the House floor Wednesday evening. The Gosar and King amendments would prohibit any funds from being used to enlist illegal aliens who received deferred action through Pres. Obama's DACA amnesty into the military. Votes are scheduled on the Gosar and King amendments this afternoon.
2016: House vote on Rep. Paul Gosar's Amdt. 1199 to H.R. 5293
2016: House vote on Rep. Steve King's Amdt. 1200 to H.R. 5293
Mother Jones details another scathing report about the H-2B guest worker program, this time from the National Guestworker Alliance.
2015: Sponsored H.R. 1019, the Partner with Korea Act, introduced by Rep. Peter Roskam (R-Ill.)
Last week, House Speaker Paul Ryan launched the GOP’s plan to fight poverty and enable the upward mobility of Americans.
The California state legislature has passed a measure that will use an Affordable Care Act (ACA) loophole called an “innovation waiver” to offer healthcare subsidies to illegal aliens. Through the innovation waiver a state can apply to expand coverage as along as they pay the extra costs, which could be in the billions.
As the trend of replacing American workers with cheaper, foreign labor through H-1B visas continues to escalate, the New York Times has found some workers who are willing to speak out about how it affects their job opportunities and wages. In some cases, the American workers were forced to train their replacements for months in order to receive their severance pay when they were eventually laid off.
