Thread by @tedcruz

1/x This is twice in three days that Durbin has called me a liar.

He’s the one who’s lying.

And he knows it.

Dick, on the Senate floor, you refused to take my question. You’ve chosen Twitter as your forum. Ok, respond with FACTS—not just partisan invective.

https://twitter.com/dickdurbin/status/1368956172099805190

2/x You claim “no illegal immigrants will get checks.”

Q1: Dick, true or false: 60% of illegal aliens are visa overstays.
 
Q2: True or false: Migrants who come to US legally on a work visa are allowed to have a SSN, yet when they overstay their visa they become illegal aliens.

3/x Q3: Dick, true or false: under the Dem bill, millions of illegal immigrants (w/ SSNs) will receive $1400 checks.

Q4: If that’s not true (you bellowed that it was “a lie!”), why did the nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation determine my amendment would save taxpayers $675m?

4/x Q5: Dick, if no illegal aliens get $$ under the Dem bill, why didn’t Bernie Sanders (or any other Dem) raise a point of order against my amendment as having no budgetary effect?

5/x Q6: Dick, if no illegal aliens get $$ under Dem bill, why didn’t you just agree to my amendment (which, under your analysis, prohibited something that wasn’t happening)?

Q7: Why did every Dem vote against my amendment prohibiting sending $1400 checks to illegal immigrants?

6/x Q8: Dick, when, in the coming days, Biden admin sends $1400 checks to millions of illegal immigrants (& incarcerated felons), will you publicly come to the floor & apologize for falsely calling me a liar?

Q9: Will the Lefty journos echoing your false charge also apologize?