GOP Rep. Won't Authorize Dems' Trip To El Salvador To See Kilmar Abrego Garcia

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: Huff Post

Apr 17, 2025, 04:03 PM EDT


A top House Republican is refusing to authorize a Democratic congressional trip to El Salvador to investigate the notorious maximum security prison where President Donald Trump’s administration is paying to hold hundreds of migrants from the United States, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a 29-year-old man from Maryland.

“If Democrats care so much about defending this individual, they can use their own personal credit cards—not taxpayers’ money—to virtue-signal to their radical base,” House Homeland Security Committee Chair Mark Green (R-Tenn.) said in a statement on Thursday.

Rep. Delia Ramirez (D-Ill.), a member of the committee, wrote to Green on Wednesday requesting a congressional member delegation (CODEL) to El Salvador as part of the panel’s oversight duties. She’s one of several congressional Democrats seeking to organize an official trip to the country.

“Given that the Administration’s use of CECOT for illegal and unconstitutional deportations is rife with ’administrative errors,” she wrote in a letter, naming the Salvadoran prison, “I urgently request a CODEL to conduct oversight.” Ramirez said the Trump administration deported Abrego Garcia and other migrants without due process, calling the actions “illegal, unconstitutional and inhumane.”

Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador_n_68014b8ce4b027910a16174c

[dchill]

1. No funds available for anything but tax cuts.

[sinkingfeeling]

13. And TSF's golf weekends.

[Paladin]

24. You beat me to it.

trump's tax-funded golf trips were the very first thing I thought of. Wonder what the grand total for those trips will be, when this nightmare is over and done?

[GreenWave]

28. Somewhere I heard @ $5mm per. Doge? Do your job!

[skypilot]

29. And mistresses.

https://nashvillebanner.com/2024/09/13/mark-green-divorce-affair/

[ShazzieB]

34. Wow.

According to Camilla Green, the 59-year-old congressman is living life “deceived” by the affair with what she described as a 32-year-old woman from a Washington-based news organization.

“I want to make others aware of how readily available ‘predators’ are for our husbands. If my story can prevent this tragedy from happening to someone else, I will tell it,” the note reads.

Oh, sweetie, no. You are putting the blame on the wrong person. Your soon to be ex husband was not the victim of a predator. He is a lying, cheating, low down, dirty dog. (Apologies to real dogs, who are much more loyal than this philanderer.)

Sure, his new squeeze showed bad judgment in getting romantically involved with a married man, but I would bet money that he was the one who made advances to her, and that he knew exactly what he was doing at the time. Be as angry at him as you need to be; he deserves it. I hope you have a shark for a lawyer, who will wring every penny possible out of him, so that you can start your new Mark Green free life on a firm footing.

But whatever you, never forget who is really to blame for this: not his new squeeze, but that slimy, scummy weasel that you will soon be well rid of: Mark "he ain't nothing but a hound dog" Green.

[DENVERPOPS]

30. I can imagine

that the TRUE costs of his *weekly* trips to Mar-a-Lago each cost around 10 Million one way.........
think about what all the "incidental" cost are for a trip on AFOne..........
Large Military transports flying down and back his cars for him and the secret service detail, his Marine one Helicopters, the advance team sent down each week before each trip, the local police costs, the six? fighter planes and pilots that escort air force one there and back, the staff that stocks the plane with the massive amounts of food stocked on board AF1, the massive Coast Guard presence off shore, and the large staff that is needed on the plane, etc etc etc

[nordenbluejay]

23. nordenbluejay

tax cuts for the wealthy and Trump's million dollar golf weekends.

[BlueMTexpat]

2. Like all GOPers

in Congress, Rep. Green is a total and complete POS.

[FSogol]

3. And yet the GOP went there to take selfies with prisoners.

[NJCher]

4. Yeah and I'm pretty sure

Noem didn’t fly down there in her costume on her own dime, either.

This trip is essential. This effing joke of a country needs to learn there are other forces at work and that the silly orange asshole they have been dealing with doesn’t hold all the cards.

Furthermore, they need to understand ALL of these prisoners are returning for their due process.

It will give the prisoners a big morale boost to know the Dem reps are there on their behalf.

[Skittles]

5. repukes are spending millions of taxpayer money for that camp

with ZERO oversight, yet they fund Cosplay Barbie Noem's photo op

sick, sick SICK

[DENVERPOPS]

31. Just don't allow that Noem TWAT

anywhere near a dog pound or dog shelter while she is armed............

[bluestarone]

35. Agree! Noem's not done yet either.

Just wait until Independence day. Fireworks all over MT Rushmore will happen this year, plus next 3 years.I'm sure of that.

[Just Jerome]

6. Yeah, so tell us

all about virtue signaling, why don’t ya?

[democrank]

7. Apparently adhering to our laws is a negative thing.

It’s so-called virtue signaling to request the government right a horrendous wrong?

[Beartracks]

15. Upholding the Constitution is now derided by Republicans as virtue-signaling.

[CaptainTruth]

8. We don't need their authorization!

[BumRushDaShow]

10. Apparently in order to be reimbursed for the cost of the trip.

Senate Rule 35 Requirements

But they have no control over where a Senator travels otherwise.

[CaptainTruth]

18. Set up a GoFundMe, I'll chip in. Do whatever you have to do.

This is not business as usual.

[Wild blueberry]

19. Me, too!

[DENVERPOPS]

32. Ditto

I will gladly send the amount I would normally donate to the DNC, because I am not sending another dime to ANY dem until I see it being used to combat what is taking place in our beloved nation.............

[Mister Ed]

9. "Virtue signaling". Nasty little rhetorical device, isn't it?

Do or say anything that's good or decent, and you're just "virtue signaling".

If they demean and abuse women, they're exalted as "alphas". If they sack the Capitol and shit in the halls, they're "patriots". But do anything good or decent and it's dismissed as "virtue signaling".

[Paladin]

25. Not something Republicans have to worry about.

When was the last time they did anything virtuous?

About what you'd expect from people who think it's "patriotic" to smear their own shit on the walls of the Capitol building.

[William Seger]

37. I've said many times, the real divide in this country, on issue after issue...

... is between people with empathy and people who have none. Reactionaries can't really comprehend why anyone would care about Garcia. They are so unable to understand empathy that they use the term "virtue signaling" to imply that it's just an act. But they say that because that's what they're doing when they find it convenient to pretend they do have empathy.

[ChazInAz]

40. May I coin a phrase?

These appalling creatures are "villainy signaling" to their deplorable base.

[liberalgunwilltravel]

11. Send

Mark Green to El Salvador.

[chia]

12. Yet Trump via Noem's DHS has budgeted $200 million to run anti-immigrant ads

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kristi-noem-200-million-dhs-ad-campaign-thanks-president-1235276324/

The ad campaign amounts to an extremely expensive taxpayer-funded propaganda blitz to scare off migrants and to flatter Trump on television. On Friday, Trump’s DHS secretary entertained the CPAC high-roller audience with her account of how Trump orchestrated the whole thing.

Noem said that Trump instructed that he didn’t want to be in the ads himself, telling her: “I want you in the ads, and I want your face in the ads … but I want the first ad, I want you to thank me. I want you to thank me for closing the border.”

She recalled: “I said, ‘Yes, sir, I will thank you for closing the border.’ So if you notice, in that ad, we thanked him for closing the border.”

The Homeland Security Department announced this week that it was launching ads “on radio, broadcast, and digital, in multiple countries and regions in various dialects.”

[Hekate]

26. When she said "Yes sir" did she have tears in her eyes?

[DENVERPOPS]

33. All those who surround Trump

are required to wear belt packs containing knee pads at all times.................................

[Beartracks]

14. Rep Green: The Constitution protects non-citizens in the US, too.

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[Dyedinthewoolliberal]

16. Ha! we could do a go fund me to pay for it or

work to make sure he (Green) doesn't get re-elected after proving what a shithead he is.

[Martin68]

17. MAGAts scrambling to cover up and protect their asses.

They don't want the American people to know the full import of Trump's actions.

[SWBTATTReg]

20. So by denying democratic reps their freedom to spend funds as they see fit, per their base, these repug thugs are

basically denying the rights of an entire 1/2 of the voting public. So what's next, deny these democratic reps paychecks for their actions in the Congress because their repug thugs don't agree w/ their actions?

[Marthe48]

21. virtue signal radical base?

The idiot is admitting that assisting the unfortunate is a virtue, while at the same time, making virtue a negative behavior. What a shame that so many ignorant pricks are sitting in Congress.

Should we start crowd-funding to do an end run around the emotional cripples in charge of the money we paid in taxes?

[orangecrush]

22. Go fuck yourself

Nazi pig shit.

[no_hypocrisy]

27. Paying out of personal expenses won't stop them!

As if were that easy to stop the will of The People!

[Evolve Dammit]

36. The fascist death panels are here in todays GOP. Not so "Grand" anymore if they ever were. n/t

[bdamomma]

38. GOP's

hypocrisy is off the chain, they want us to believe they care about American taxpayers, after they are taking our SS, and everything else. What treasonous idiots the GOP are.

[Dem4life1970]

39. They are afraid. They don't want the light shone on their actions.