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Twitter censors Trump’s Minneapolis tweet for ‘glorifying violence’

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Twitter has once again taken action against President Trump, this time censoring a tweet for “glorifying violence” in his late-night response to the ongoing violence in Minneapolis.

Trump said he couldn’t not just watch the city be overwhelmed by the unrest over the death of George Floyd.

“I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted. “A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.

A second tweet continued, “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let this happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you.”

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A few hours after the president sent those tweets, Twitter added a disclaimer onto the second tweet, which hides the message until users click “view.”

“This Tweet violated the Twitter Rules about glorifying violence. However, Twitter has determined that it may be in the public’s interest for the Tweet to remain accessible,” the disclaimer read.

Critics on Twitter said Trump’s comments had racial undertones and said the term “when the looting starts, the shooting starts” can be traced back to Miami Police Chief Walter Headley in 1967 as a threat to black protestors during the civil rights movement.

When asked for comment, Twitter pointed to a thread explaining the decision.

“This Tweet violates our policies regarding the glorification of violence based on the historical context of the last line, its connection to violence, and the risk it could inspire similar actions today,” Twitter Comms wrote. “We’ve taken action in the interest of preventing others from being inspired to commit violent acts, but have kept the Tweet on Twitter because it is important that the public still be able to see the Tweet given its relevance to ongoing matters of public importance.”

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This marks the second time Twitter has cracked down on Trump’s tweets. Earlier this week, the tech giant added a fact-checking label to the president’s tweets sounding the alarm on potential fraud from mail-in voting.

That sparked escalated tensions between him and Twitter, prompting the president to sign an executive order on Thursday that interprets Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) as not providing statutory liability protections for tech companies that engage in censorship and political conduct.

Fox News’ Edmund DeMarche and Gregg Re contributed to this report. 

New Jersey may have to cut 200K jobs if no federal help: report

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Gov. Phil Murphy, the New Jersey Democrat, said in an interview Thursday that without financial help from the federal government, his state will likely have to cut 200,000 public employees, including police officers and firefighters.

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New Jersey is among several states facing serious financial hardships after the coronavirus outbreaks. There is debate in Washington about whether these states should have access to the funding. Some Republicans say poor fiscal management led them to this point.

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“I don’t think there’s any amount of cuts or any amount of taxes that begin to fill the hole,” Murphy told Bloomberg Television. He continued, “The alternative to not getting that funding is a whole lot of layoffs—we think as much as 200,000 or more.”

Bloomberg reported that Murphy vowed to cut $5 billion, but the state’s expected to have about a $10.1 billion revenue shortfall.

The debate over the federal government bailing out states started when Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said last month that states should be able to declare bankruptcy.

“I would certainly be in favor of allowing states to use the bankruptcy route. It saves some cities,” he said at the time. “And there’s no good reason for it not to be available. My guess is their first choice would be for the federal government to borrow money from future generations to send it down to them now so they don’t have to do that. That’s not something I’m going to be in favor of.”

There has been a debate ever since.

Scott Walker, the former governor of Wisconsin, wrote in an op-ed in the New York Times that bailing out states would be the wrong decision.

“This should not happen,” he wrote. “States already raise taxes on their residents.”

Walker said the federal government should maintain a laser focus on small businesses.

“Failure to do so will continue to hurt state economies, saddling them with insolvent balance sheets,” he wrote.

The Times reported that Democratic governors from Washington State, Nevada, Oregon and California claimed that all 50 states would require $1 trillion.

Congress is at a crossroads on the next virus relief bill. Democrats tout their 1,800-page bill as an opening salvo in negotiations, but Senate Republicans are wary of another round of negotiations where Democrats and the White House call the shots.

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Republicans are also split on how much aid to provide state and local governments, as well as other parts of the Democrats’ proposal.

The Associated Press contributed to this report

Kentucky protester loses job over effigy hanging; Lee Greenwood ‘furious’ song was used

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A Kentucky protester who was recently seen participating in the hanging of an effigy of Gov. Andy Beshear has lost his job, according to reports.

The protester was identified as Terry Bush, an employee of an auto dealer, the Courier Journal of Louisville reported. The newspaper said Bush’s wife, Patsy Bush, confirmed the firing.

“He was fired because this governor is more important than the regular Joe out in this state trying to put food on their tables,” Patsy Bush told the newspaper.

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“He was fired because this governor is more important than the regular Joe out in this state trying to put food on their tables.”

— Patsy Bush, wife of fired protester

Meanwhile, singer Lee Greenwood said he was “furious” that one of his songs, “God Bless the USA,” was played during the protest.

“I am furious that they used my song in an attempt to give strength to their event, and do not condone their behavior and its use in conjunction with a suggested lynching, even one that is purely symbolic,” Greenwood said in a statement.

“To be clear, I absolutely support the right for citizens to unite in protest and public gathering. However, my song was written solely to inspire and unite, not further divide and distance our country, certainly as in times of strife as we are today.”

“My song was written solely to inspire and unite, not further divide and distance our country, certainly as in times of strife as we are today.”

— Lee Greenwood

Neil Huffman Auto Group said it terminated an employee after an internal review, without confirming whether it was Bush, saying the company “does not condone threats of violence in any form.”

“There is no place for hate or intolerance at any of our dealerships,” Shannon Huffman, the auto dealer’s human resources manager, posted on social media this week.

Beshear commented on the protest and the firing this week, saying state Republicans shared in the blame even though they joined Democrats in condemning the protest.

“You cannot fan the flames and condemn the fire,” Beshear said Tuesday, according to the Courier-Journal.

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​​​​​Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks at the Statehouse in Frankfort, April 5, 2020. (Associated Press)

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“Different decisions have consequences and I would hope that we would all make better decisions,” the Democrat added Wednesday, according to The Associated Press. “But you don’t simply in the moment make a dummy with somebody’s face on it and hang it up. I think what we saw was an act intended to create fear and terror.”

The effigy was hanged in a tree near the Statehouse during what was billed as a protest rally in defense of constitutional rights, including the right to bear arms. The rally turned into a protest against coronavirus restrictions and Beshear’s administration, according to news reports, with protesters chanting outside the governor’s mansion for him to come outside.

Fox News’ Morgan Phillips and The Associated Press contributed to this story.

Biden’s head-turning comments on Asians resurface amid former VP’s attacks on Trump ‘xenophobia’

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Republicans are highlighting Joe Biden’s past head-turning comments concerning Asian Americans after the former vice president co-authored an op-ed this week accusing President Trump of “needlessly” and “cruelly” scapegoating foreigners during the coronavirus pandemic.

Earlier this year, the former vice president hit Trump for “xenophobia” within hours of his January ban on most travel from China — a policy that Biden and outside observers have since acknowledged was the right call. In their new op-ed, published by NBC News, Biden and Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., take a somewhat different approach.

Instead, the two Democrats all but accuse Trump of racism for telling CBS News’ Weijia Jiang to “ask China” about rising coronavirus cases. CNN published an analysis piece calling that moment a “microaggression,” although Trump has previously asked reporters of various ethnicities — including CNN’s own Jim Acosta — to “ask China” for information at press conferences.

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The op-ed goes on to fault Trump for using the term “Chinese virus” and for “deflecting blame for his own failure to heed the warnings of experts to prepare for this crisis.” Critics have called “Chinese virus” a racist term, although various networks — again, including CNN — had repeatedly referred to the coronavirus as the “Wuhan virus” or “Chinese coronavirus.”

Trump has said he used the term “Chinese virus” to counteract Chinese claims that the U.S. military was responsible for the pandemic. And various experts, including Biden’s coronavirus response team, had downplayed the coronavirus pandemic even as cases were increasingly reported in the United States.

Democratic presidential candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, with Jill Biden, departs after laying a wreath at the Delaware Memorial Bridge Veterans Memorial Park, Monday, May 25, 2020, in New Castle, Del. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

For the GOP, the op-ed was an opportunity to remind voters of Biden’s own questionable remarks, as well as the president’s policies affecting the Asian American community, to close out Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

“Joe Biden has disregarded and ridiculed the Asian Pacific American community while President Trump and Republicans continue to champion Asian Pacific Americans, build meaningful relationships, and honor their heritage, sacrifices, and accomplishments,” Republican National Committee (RNC) Asian Pacific Americans (APA) media director Marina Tse told Fox News.

Biden publicly claimed during a campaign stop in 2019, for example, that “xenophobia” keeps Japanese women employed.

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“You cannot succeed as a country if you leave more than half of your brainpower on the sidelines,” Biden said in South Carolina. “Japan is in a position where traditionally women are as well-educated as men, but the tradition was, once they had a child, they were to drop out of the job market. … There’s an entire move, because they’re xenophobic — because they don’t want to invite other people from outside their country to come in and make up the workforce — they have fewer workers than they have a need for workers. And so, what they’ve done is they’ve decided to encourage women to stay in the job market.”

And the Washington Post reported in 2014 that Biden flubbed a story about his meeting with former Singapore prime minister Lee Kuan Yew, just hours after he walked back his decision to employ the term “Shylocks” following criticism from Jewish groups.

“On the way back from Mumbai to go meet with President Xi in China, I stopped in Singapore to meet with a guy named Lee Kuan Yew, who most foreign policy experts around the world say is the wisest man in the Orient,” Biden told voters.

The use of the term “Orient” enraged some Asian Americans on social media, the Post reported.

“Vice President Joe Biden’s insensitive remarks are offensive to both Asian-Americans and our Asian allies abroad,” RNC spokesperson Ninio Fetalvo said at the time. “His comment is not only disrespectful but also uses unacceptable imperialist undertones.”

In 2011, the Post noted that Biden appeared to praise China’s one-child policy, which has “rested on coercion, including forced sterilization and abortion.” The vice president’s office later clarified that he had not intended to do so.

“Your policy has been one which I fully understand — I’m not second-guessing — of one child per family,” Biden said. “The result being that you’re in a position where one wage earner will be taking care of four retired people. Not sustainable.”

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And in 2013, Biden asked several Japanese women at an Internet company: “Do your husbands like you working full-time?”

The GOP, meanwhile, has touted its increased engagement with Asian Americans, efforts to combat hate crimes, and economic progress — noting, for example, that Asian Americans received on average the largest amount from the GOP tax bill.

“This November, we must vote for the candidate who is actually fighting for us, not the one who using us as a political pawn,” Tse, the RNC APA spokesperson, told Fox News.

Trump blasts Minneapolis mayor, vows military support if needed

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President Trump took to Twitter early Friday to vow military support for the governor of Minnesota after another night of violent protest in Minneapolis, which included a police station being overrun and set on fire.

“I can’t stand back & watch this happen to a great American City, Minneapolis,” Trump tweeted. “A total lack of leadership. Either the very weak Radical Left Mayor, Jacob Frey, get his act together and bring the City under control, or I will send in the National Guard & get the job done right.

A second tweet continued, “These THUGS are dishonoring the memory of George Floyd, and I won’t let this happen. Just spoke to Governor Tim Walz and told him that the Military is with him all the way. Any difficulty and we will assume control but, when the looting starts, the shooting starts. Thank you.”

Mayor Jacob Frey said it was his decision to evacuate the precinct.

“The symbolism of the building cannot outweigh the importance of life, our officers or the public,” he said. “We could not risk serious injury to anyone. And we will continue to patrol the Third Precinct,” he said.

Frey said Trump “knows nothing about the strength of Minneapolis. We are strong as hell. Is this a difficult time period? Yes. But you better be damn sure we are going to get through this.”

Earlier in the day, Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary, told reporters that the president was “very upset” when he watched the George Floyd video.

Floyd, a handcuffed black man, pleaded for air as a white police officer kneeled on his neck and died in police custody earlier this week.

It was “egregious, appalling and tragic,” McEnany said. “He wants justice to be served.” She said that the video prompted Trump to “pick up the phone” while aboard Air Force One and ask the FBI to expedite its investigation.

Trump later told Buck Sexton, the radio host, that he watched the video “like everyone else did. That was a horrible thing that I watched. Horrible.”

A police spokesman confirmed late Thursday that staff had evacuated the 3rd Precinct station, the focus of many of the protests, “in the interest of the safety of our personnel” late Thursday. Livestream video showed the protesters entering the building, where fire alarms blared and sprinklers ran as blazes were set.

Protesters could be seen setting fire to a Minneapolis Police Department jacket and cheering.

More than 500 members of the National Guard were heading to the Twin Cities region, called in by Walz, the Star Tribune of Minneapolis reported.

Floyd’s death has deeply shaken Minneapolis and sparked protests in cities across the U.S. Local leaders have repeatedly urged demonstrators to avoid violence.

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“Please stay home. Please do not come here to protest. Please keep the focus on George Floyd, on advancing our movement and on preventing this from ever happening again,” tweeted St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, who is black.

Fox News’ Dom Calicchio, Morgan Phillips and the Associated Press contributed to this report

NYC bans the word ‘alien’ in laws, documents, opts for ‘noncitizen’

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New York City became the first major city in the U.S. on Thursday to remove the terms “alien,” “illegal immigrant” and “illegal migrant” from local laws, rules and documents and instead the NYC Council will be replacing them with the term “noncitizen.”

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Queens Councilman Francisco Moya, the Democrat who sponsored the bill, called the terms “outdated and loaded words used to dehumanize the people they describe.”

“Words matter. The language we choose to use has power and consequences. It’s time we as a city use our language to acknowledge people as people rather than to dehumanize them and divide us,” Moya said.

The commissioner of NYC Immigrant Affairs, Bitta Mostofi, applauded the work of the council, saying, “At a time when the federal government is engaged in divisive policies and racist rhetoric, we are proud to have worked within the administration with the council to show that there is a better way, one that recognizes the humanity of New Yorkers.”

Four council members — including Joe Borelli, R-South Shore, and Minority Leader Steven Matteo, R-Mid Island — were the only two to vote against the legislation.

“Not all noncitizens are the same. Some are tourists, students, or temporary or permanent legal residents, while others have entered and/or remain in this country unlawfully. This legislation is an ill-conceived attempt to erase these important distinctions from all city government publications,” Matteo said, according to reports by SiLive.com.

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In October, New York City’s Commission on Human Rights issued guidance making it illegal to use the terms “illegals” or “illegal alien” with the “intent to demean, humiliate or harass a person.” Doing so is punishable by a fine of up to $250,000.

US disrupts Iranian fuel deliveries to Venezuela, official says

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The Trump administration halted scheduled Iranian fuel deliveries to Venezuela Wednesday by threatening sanctions on the ships carrying the cargo, according to U.S. officials.

Iran and Venezuela attempted to outmaneuver American sanctions by establishing a new oil partnership.

Two Liberian-flagged, Greek-owned ships that “were en route to Venezuela carrying Iranian fuel, scrapped their deliveries after the U.S. threatened sanctions,” a senior U.S. official told Fox News.

First reported by The Wall Street Journal, the ships were expected to arrive in Venezuela as the final delivery in a previously planned five-oil-tanker shipment, an effort that the Venezuelan regime has said is a partnership to thwart the American sanctions.

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“The Iranian oil tankers arriving in Venezuela are nothing but a distraction from the real problems facing Maduro,” a spokesperson from the State Department told Fox News. “These shipments will do nothing to help Venezuelans, they will only help prop up the former Maduro regime for a little while longer.”

Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro said in a televised address: “We are two rebel revolutionary peoples that are never going to kneel before North American imperialism.”

But the Greek-owned ships would have been unable to access international banking and maritime insurance had they carried out the shipment.

U.S. officials have been in direct communication with the ships, which are no longer heading to Venezuala but heading south off the coast of Senegal near Liberia, according to The Wall Street Journal.

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The State Department’s Iran Action Group reportedly contacted the Liberian government, to which the two ships are registered, to warn them against sanctions. The Liberian government immediately revoked the ships’ accreditation.

The two Greek firms that own the ships were also threatened with U.S. sanctions and legal action, at which point the two ships abandoned the course, according to The Journal.

The U.S. has been increasing its efforts in pressuring both nations with sanctions.

“We will continue to use the full weight of United States’ economic and diplomatic power to press for the restoration of Venezuelan democracy,” the State Department spokesperson told Fox News.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that the U.S. will be removing all sanction waivers that allowed Chinese, European and Russian companies to work with Iranian nuclear sites without falling target to existing U.S. sanctions on Iran.

President Trump has also increased sanctions on Venezuela, drastically affecting its oil production.

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According to experts, the oil shipments were only expected to satisfy Venezuelan demand for a couple of weeks.

“Iranian gas cannot prevent the inevitable: a democratic transition that restores prosperity to Venezuela,” the State Department spokesperson said.

Biden’s support among College Democrats slips amid Tara Reade claims

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Several chapters of the College Democrats are refusing to support Joe Biden in his bid for the White House following sexual assault allegations brought forth by Tara Reade, who was a young staffer in his office nearly 30 years ago when Biden was a senator.

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Biden has denied the allegations, however, College Democrats are calling for “an independent, nonpartisan investigation of the claims,” the Washington D.C. chapter said in a statement in early May.

The group said it will “seek to reaffirm our commitment to supporting survivors of harassment and assault. We do not issue this statement lightly, as we believe that the accusations against Mr. Biden are both credible and extremely relevant in his bid for president.”

Other college democratic organizations — which usually support the Democratic candidate for president and drum up support among young voters — including the Texas College Democrats, the Memphis Young Democratic Socialists and the Carolina Young Democratic Socialists, have all issued similar statements calling for a full review of Reade’s allegations, according to reports by Campus Reform.

Reade has alleged that in 1993 when she was 29 years old, Biden forcefully kissed her while he put his hands under her clothing and penetrated her with his fingers.

The D.C. College Democrats have compared the way allegations against Biden have been handled to that of sexual assault and harassment allegations against then-Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh in 2018.

“We stand with the party in solidarity with the #MeToo movement which was best evidenced by the support for Dr. Christine Blasey Ford when she testified against Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation,” the group said.  “If Democrats take pride in proclaiming that justice must prevail for Dr. Ford and even passionately insist that victims cannot be dismissed, then we must apply the same scrutiny to former Vice President Joe Biden.”

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Biden has said the encounter “never happened,” and he has received the continued support of prominent women and Democrats in his caucus.

House Republicans escalate proxy-voting fight with bill to deny pay to lawmakers who participate

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A group of House Republican lawmakers introduced a bill Thursday that would withhold pay for members of Congress who vote by proxy, as the battle over how measures are voted on amid the coronavirus pandemic continues to intensify.

The proposed legislation, led by Rep. Ted Budd, R-N.C., would deny a day’s pay for each day a congressional lawmaker either votes by proxy or has a proxy record their presence in the House for a quorum.

GOP members of Congress have raised alarms over the temporary voting system and filed a lawsuit earlier this week against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, the House clerk and the sergeant-at-arms over the plan, calling it unconstitutional.

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“Outsourcing the duty of a member of Congress is unconstitutional and wrong,” Budd said in a statement. “House members should not be allowed to send someone else to do their jobs for them.”

The bill is co-sponsored by GOP Reps. Dan Bishop and David Rouzer, both of North Carolina, Andy Biggs of Arizona, Jack Bergman of Michigan, John Curtis of Utah, Bill Posey of Florida and Alex Mooney from West Virginia.

The Hosue made history Wednesday when it conducted its first proxy vote in its 231-year history. Lawmakers voted 413-1 to impose sanctions on Chinese officials for the treatment of Uighur Muslims in China.

The Democrat-led House voted along party lines earlier this month to allow a proxy vote arrangement, meaning allowing House members to vote on another person’s behalf if they chose to avoid the risks of traveling to Washington, D.C.

Republicans argue the Constitution requires a quorum, or a majority, of lawmakers to be present to vote on matters.

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“In the real world, if you don’t show up for your job, you don’t get paid. The same principle should apply to our country’s representatives. If they don’t come to work, they shouldn’t receive their taxpayer-funded paycheck,” Budd said.

Pelosi called the lawsuit a “sad stunt” intended to “delay and obstruct urgently-needed action to meet the needs of American workers and families during the coronavirus crisis.”

Fox News’ Vandana Rambaran contributed to this report. 

GOP congressman pushes bill to block states from giving stimulus aid to undocumented migrants

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Rep. Ken Buck, R-Colo., introduced a bill to the House of Representatives that would block states from distributing funds provided under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act (CARES Act) to undocumented migrants.

The legislation put forward Thursday serves as a companion bill to the legislation Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., introduced in the Senate earlier this month.

“I am working with Sen. Cotton on this effort to make sure COVID-19 resources go to taxpaying Americans, not non-citizens who broke our immigration laws,” Buck told Fox News.

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The No Bailouts for Illegal Aliens Act is a direct response to states providing coronavirus funding to undocumented migrants who did not receive stimulus checks from the CARES Act, which Congress passed in March to provide economic relief to Americans struggling from the coronavirus shutdowns.

Tax returns were used to determine the amount each individual or household would receive in their stimulus checks.

Anyone who did not file income taxes in 2018 or 2019 did not receive a stimulus check.

“It’s absurd that states like California are sending taxpayer dollars to illegal immigrants at a time when millions of Americans are out of work and struggling,” Buck told Fox News Thursday.

California has set aside $75 million to assist roughly 150,000 undocumented migrants who were suffering hardships due to the coronavirus, the LA Times reported.

The program provides an “undocumented adult who qualifies” a one-time fund of $500 and up to $1,000 per household, according to California’s Department of Social Services.

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“With more than 40 million Americans out of work, it is unfair to send hard-earned taxpayer dollars to non-citizens who entered this country illegally,” said Buck in a statement Thursday.

Under the companion bill, states must certify that they are not purposefully distributing CARES Act stimulus funds to undocumented migrants.

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With a Democrat-controlled House of Representatives, the likelihood of the bill passing is unclear at this time.

“We need to prioritize the American people by making sure taxpayers are not subsidizing blue states’ plans to give cash payments to illegal immigrants,” Buck said in a statement.