{"id":124060,"date":"2021-02-10T22:49:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:49:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124060"},"modified":"2021-02-10T22:57:38","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T03:57:38","slug":"democrats-block-amendment-to-ban-illegals-from-getting-taxpayer-funded-cobra-benefits-in-stimulus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-block-amendment-to-ban-illegals-from-getting-taxpayer-funded-cobra-benefits-in-stimulus\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats Block Amendment To Ban Illegals From Getting Taxpayer-Funded COBRA Benefits In Stimulus"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocrats-block-amendment-to-ban-illegals-from-getting-taxpayer-funded-cobra-benefits-in-stimulus%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=124060&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/FW-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>House Democrats on the Education and Labor Committee blocked two budget amendments late on Tuesday night that would have banned illegal aliens from receiving taxpayer-funded COBRA benefits in Biden\u2019s $1.9 trillion stimulus package.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMr. Chairman, this package establishes an 85% Premium reduction for individuals enrolled in COBRA, the continuation coverage, and reimburses employers for this cost through the payroll tax credit,\u201d Rep. Russ Fulcher (R-MI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarkBednar\/status\/1359365757310820353\">said<\/a>. \u201cMy amendment would ensure that taxpayer dollars or tax credits for COBRA coverage in this legislation will only go to those with lawful immigration status. [Mr.] Chairman, America is a nation of laws and regardless of the previous conversations, citizenship is the basis for those laws, and rightfully so.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican law doesn\u2019t apply the same outside of our borders as it does within our borders,\u201d he continued. \u201cAnd citizenship comes with privileges; it also comes with some costs. The privileges are services and protections that come with being a citizen. The cost are taxes. I\u2019ve heard some of the previous comments and \u2026 yes, non-citizens pay some taxes. Yes, they do. But not in the same frame as citizens do. When we provide privileges without requiring costs, we dilute the value of \u2026 citizenship and we discourage those that pay the bill, and by the way, we discourage those who we represent and who vote for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Democrats also <a href=\"https:\/\/stefanik.house.gov\/media-center\/press-releases\/stefanik-statement-democrats-partisan-mark-president-bidens-covid-19\">blocked<\/a> an amendment from Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) that \u201cwould have prohibited academic institutions from funding if they have a partnership with any entity owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by the government of the People\u2019s Republic of China or organized under the laws of the Chinese Communist Party.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stefanik\u2019s amendment came after Democrat Joe Biden reportedly canceled a plan put in place by the Trump administration that would have tracked the rising influence of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) through Confucius Institutes in the U.S. education system.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAround 500 K-12 schools and 65 colleges in the U.S. have partnerships with the Confucius Institute U.S. Center, a U.S.-based affiliate of the Beijing-based Confucius Institute Headquarters. The institute, also known as Hanban, is affiliated with the Chinese Ministry of Education,\u201d the Daily Caller News Foundation&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/02\/09\/biden-confucius-institute-trump-china\/\">reported<\/a>. \u201cMany of Hanban\u2019s directors are members of the Chinese Communist Party or have close ties to the organization.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must prevent American taxpayer dollars from going to institutions that have partnerships with any entity owned, controlled, or organized under the laws of the Chinese Communist Party, which we know is censoring free speech, engaging in genocide in Xinjiang Province, and influencing American academia before our eyes,\u201d Stefanik&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/stefanik-amendment-funds-confucius-institute-biden-trump-rule\">said<\/a>&nbsp;in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Chinese government has provided hundreds of millions of dollars to Confucius Institutes throughout the U.S. over the last 14 years, leading former CIA Director Mike Pompeo to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/democrats-block-amendment-to-ban-stimulus-funds-from-going-to-chinese-communist-party-tied-entities\">warn<\/a> that communist China \u201chas taken advantage of America\u2019s openness to undertake large scale and well-funded propaganda efforts and influence operations in this country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em><span>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/span><\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em><span>member<\/span><\/em><\/a><em><span>.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Democrats on the Education and Labor Committee blocked two budget amendments late on Tuesday night that would have banned illegal aliens from receiving taxpayer-funded COBRA benefits in Biden\u2019s $1.9 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893159,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4935,4728,3685,3668,4246,6325],"class_list":["post-124060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-amendment","tag-block","tag-democrats","tag-from","tag-getting","tag-illegals"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}