Senate Defeats Rand Paul Amendment to Cut $5.1 Billion Refugee Funding

Senate GOP fails to halt welfare funding for non-citizens

(The Center Square) – U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees.

Senate Republicans fail to halt welfare funding for non-citizens

U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to refugees. U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act U.S. Senate Republicans failed to halt over $5 billion in funding for refugees, with 20 GOP senators joining every Senate Democrat to continue providing costly taxpayer benefits to r…

Senate fails to halt welfare funding for non-citizens | The Highland County Press

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., introduced the End Welfare for Non-Citizens Act to end taxpayer benefits for refugees, asylees and illegal immigrants earlier this week. In an impassioned plea on the Senate floor Friday afternoon, Paul argued that the U.S. shouldn’t be “the world’s sugar daddy.”