Rep. Dan Crenshaw leveled the Washington Post’s Jennifer Rubin for her lies about Republicans holding immigrant children at the border “hostage.”
The Texas Republican rebutted Rubin’s ignorant tweet with one of his own Thursday after she commended House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for reversing course and allowing a House vote Thursday on a $4.6 billion Senate-passed emergency bill on sending funding to the border.
Pelosi caved to pressure from the GOP and members of her own party while 95 Democrats voted against the bill which passed with bipartisan support in the Senate by an 84-8 vote on Wednesday. The Democrat leader announced that the House would “reluctantly” vote on the Senate bill “to get resources to the children fastest.”
Pelosi caves, will allow border-funding Senate bill on the House floor. AOC responds: ‘Hell no’! https://t.co/TJfinzG1VX
— Conservative News (@BIZPACReview) June 27, 2019
Democratic infighting challenged Pelosi’s leadership ability as she made the final decision against the arguments of the progressive faction of the Democratic caucus.
“The children come first. At the end of the day, we have to make sure that the resources needed to protect the children are available,” Pelosi wrote to her caucus on Thursday. “Therefore, we will not engage in the same disrespectful behavior that the Senate did in ignoring our priorities. In order to get resources to the children fastest, we will reluctantly pass the Senate bill.”
Rubin, an MSNBC contributor who touts herself as a conservative, applauded the Speaker, claiming that contrary to Republicans, the Democrats “are not willing to hold children hostage.”
Pelosi did the right thing because unlike R’s the D’s are not willing to hold children hostage
— Jennifer Rubin (@JRubinBlogger) June 27, 2019
Rubin has consistently shown that her views do not line up with that of conservatives and her vocal dislike of President Trump has earned her the wrath of his supporters. A letter to The Washington Post last year demanded the publication stop referring to the columnist as a conservative.
Crenshaw quickly schooled Rubin after her tweet on Thursday and demanded she “stop misleading people.”
You forgot the part where R’s asked for a vote on humanitarian aid 17 times before today.
17 times.
Stop misleading people. https://t.co/TDQqyAr3nM
— Dan Crenshaw (@DanCrenshawTX) June 27, 2019
The White House accused Democrats of refusing to work with their GOP counterparts, saying in a statement before the vote Thursday that “the only ones delaying help for the children are the Democrats.” Republicans repeatedly asked Democrats to take up the Senate bill for a vote, as GOP House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy tweeted out the scene as Republicans submitted unanimous consent requests that were consistently denied each time by Texas Democrat Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.
HAPPENING NOW → Republicans are repeatedly asking Democrats to take up a vote on a bipartisan Senate bill that will provide immediate humanitarian aid at the border. Democrats keep blocking it—more than 30 times now.
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) June 27, 2019
74th time ← Democrats blocked @RodneyDavis
75th time ← Democrats blocked @RepAlexMooney
76th time ← Democrats blocked @RepByrne
77th time ← Democrats blocked @RepBradWenstrup
78th time ← Democrats blocked @DrNealDunnFL2
79th time ← Democrats blocked @RepLanceGooden— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) June 27, 2019
80th time ← Democrats blocked @RepMikeJohnson
81st time ← Democrats blocked @RepArmstrongNDThe Senate passed this bill 84-8. ← BIPARTISAN. If Senators Chuck Schumer, Dick Durbin, and Dianne Feinstein voted yes, why are House Democrats just playing politics?
— Kevin McCarthy (@GOPLeader) June 27, 2019
“What’s changed?” Crenshaw asked earlier in the day in a tweet featuring a video clip of former President Obama and his similar stance on the illegal immigration issue as Trump.
2014: President advocates for enforcing our sovereignty and curbing illegal immigration.
2019: President advocates for enforcing our sovereignty and curbing illegal immigration, but faces endless criticism for it.
Securing our border used to be bipartisan. What’s changed? pic.twitter.com/EhkS4IKTdy
— Rep. Dan Crenshaw (@RepDanCrenshaw) June 27, 2019
Crenshaw may have called out Rubin for her “misleading” comment but many Twitter users saw it as blatant lying and thanked the congressman for pointing it out.
If Rubin stopped misleading people, she’d never write another word.
— (((Ken Brown))) (@K_P_Brown) June 28, 2019
I think she forgot how illegals were treated under the previous administration. #HypocrisyoftheLeft #AmericansBeforeIllegals #MAGA #KeepingAmericaGreat ❤️??❤️
— Rachel (@NonPcAmerica) June 28, 2019
Small details, Dan! DEMs have a problem with facts and reality.
— Sandra ??? (@SandraSBreen) June 28, 2019
She is taking a page from AOC’s book, facts don’t matter.
— SusanH (@AdaSooner) June 28, 2019
That’s not “misleading” Sir. It’s LYING. Which is the realm political scumbags reside…
The left doesn’t care about these people. If they cared, they would have acted MONTHS ago when people started calling it a “humanitarian crisis”. They only care now for 2020 campaigns.
— Dane DeArmond (@DaneDeArmond) June 27, 2019
Anything to dunk on Trump and Republicans. Thank you for calling her out.
— The?FOO (@PolitiBunny) June 27, 2019
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