Future Fatherland purity czar Tom Homan tells the Wall Street Journal he’s “waiting to see what Congress is going to give us for funding,” when it comes to his plans to inflict cruelty and suffering on undocumented immigrants and their naturally born children which is, uh, kind of supposed to not be a variable at least in the way that he and convicted felon President-Elect Trump had been selling their plan to deport millions and millions of non-citizens currently living and working in the US.
The asterisk, tacked onto Homan’s answer to a question on whether military planes and bases would be used to carry out the mass internments and deportations of the undocumented, raises the practical problems that the new regime is going to face when carrying out its lofty promises from the campaign trail – and the likelihood that they’re going to fall massively short of them if they have to rely on a GOP majority in the House that will literally be smaller than the one in the Senate for the first few months of the new regime and then still just five seats after special elections.
Seriously what the fuck does this guy think they’re going to get? Of course you can’t rule out every single Republican falling in line and giving them EVERYTHING they need to make it happen but when they couldn’t even make sure Border Patrol agents would get their paychecks on time without Democratic votes then maybe Homan should be looking elsewhere, as in agency budgets that have already been allocated, to loot from. Think of all the “farm district” Republicans that are going to be all “no se puede” when it comes to depriving their donors of cheap labor. Hell those guys are probably going to be less of a headache to sell on funding it than the “moderates” in suburban districts who are going to feel the most heat if things get really bloody, which they will.
Oh well, looks like Trump overpromised and will probably underdeliver for his fans. Again.