60,000 border and customs agents told to take furloughs

60,000 border and customs agents told to take furloughs. “66,000 employees responsible for securing the nation’s borders and facilitating trade will be furloughed for as many as 14 days starting next month because of $85 billion in cross-government spending cuts.” No cuts to porky stuff like green energy or presidential road trips, though. Kinda like the guy who went on a diet by cutting out meat and veggies so he could keep eating 10 boxes of Ho-hos every day.

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  • This should result in VERY handsome payoffs er I mean donations to a certain person and party from the drug lords and arms smugglers. Probably a great time to smuggle in some of those non-existent WMD's that are all over the Shitholeistans. I sure hope they don't set one off in DC just because it would clearly be the place that would cause the most havoc to the US.

  • Yeah, lets gut the military and our border security while"Dear Leader" plans his next multimillion dollar vacation to Martha's Vineyard.

  • Yeah, press your thumb down hard on the little people until they protest the paltry few % increase in spending they will receive this year. What a shit for a C-in-C.

    BHO: Hoping to change lies into reality everyday

  • No word on furloughs for those that are processing new welfare recipients through the line?

  • Isn't there any sort of uprising at all happening! Anywhere? Why is this abuse just going unchallenged by anyone. This man is not threatening anymore, he is causing irreparable damage to our country with these tantrums. Everyone know there are a million other ways to cut spending, this is retribution that will cause harm!

  • This is the perfect opportunity for terrorists to come across our border and for the president to lay it squarely on the GOP's lap.

    Wonder if they'll consult that wise old philosopher, Testicles, for any advice on how to handle it?

      • If they were future Republican voters you can bet that it would look like the Berlin Wall down there.

        • The deal is they aren't just crossing on the southern border (though God knows we have enough doing just that.) They are also coming in by water on the west coast, and through Canada to the north. We have illegals from the rest of our hemisphere, sure. But we also have TONS of Asians, Indians, Russian, etc. EVERYBODY hates us, but EVERYBODY is breaking their ass to get here.