Republicans deny Democrats' requests for El Salvador oversight trips

By Merlin Delcid, CNN Kilmar Ábrego García, the Maryland man wrongly deported to El Salvador, grew up in Los Nogales, a quiet, middle-class neighborhood southeast of San Salvador, the Central American country's capital. In this small neighborhood in the San Marcos district, where the streets are filled with cars and the brick houses form four narrow alleys—or blocks—only a few of the neighbors who still live there told CNN they remember him. The…

House Oversight Chair James Comer Denies Democrats Taxpayer Funds to Visit MS-13 Gang Member in El Salvador: ‘Spend Your Own Money’

Comer denied Democrats taxpayer-funded travel to El Salvador to visit a deported illegal alien with alleged ties to the MS-13 gang.

House Dems' request for taxpayer-funded pilgrimage to El Salvador rejected · American Wire News

If a pair of performative House Democrats are going to make a pilgrimage to El Salvador to visit reputed MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia, they may have to do it on their own dime. Reps. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.) and Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) were looking to use taxpayer dollars to fund their Central American grandstanding CODEL but have been shot down by Republican House leaders who rejected their “absurd” requests that would “waste taxpayer dolla…

Comer rejects House Democrats' request to fund travel to El Salvador to meet deported migrant

Comer rebuked the two lawmakers, claiming that it was "absurd" they were requesting the committee pay for the travel when they have been "hostile" to the committee's oversight of the border crisis.

Comer Slams Dems: No Taxpayer Funds for MS-13 Sympathy Tour

Rep. James Comer Denies Taxpayer-Funded Trip for Democrats to See Deported Migrant

Rep. James Comer (R-KY) criticized Democrats for wanting the House Oversight Committee to use taxpayer funds to send them to El Salvador.