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Trump says military to build border wall if Democrats refuse
Associated Press ^ | December 11, 2018 | Matthew Daly

Posted on 12/11/2018 8:16:46 AM PST by Olog-hai

President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to pressure Democratic congressional leaders into supporting his demand for billions of dollars to build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, threatening to have the military build it “if Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country.”

Trump tweeted the threat hours before Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi were to meet with Trump at the White House in an effort to avert a partial government shutdown on Dec. 21, when funding for some agencies is scheduled to expire.

In a series of tweets Tuesday, Trump said immigration and border patrol agents and thousands of active-duty service members he sent to the border have done a “FANTASTIC” job. But he said “A Great Wall would be, however, a far easier & less expensive solution.”

Trump said he looked forward to meeting with Schumer and Pelosi, but claimed they don’t want border security for “strictly political reasons.”

“If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!” Trump said. …

(Excerpt) Read more at apnews.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Mexico; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: California; US: New Mexico; US: New York; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: 115th; aliens; boom; bordersecurity; borderwall; buildthewall; caravan; elsalvador; guatemala; honduras; illegals; invaders; invasion; maga; military; pelosi; schumer; trumpdod
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1 posted on 12/11/2018 8:16:47 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

MAGA!


2 posted on 12/11/2018 8:18:28 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Olog-hai

Damn right! Please Trump put the military on building and start in in January.


3 posted on 12/11/2018 8:19:53 AM PST by Logical me
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To: Olog-hai
I know that as Commander-in-Chief, he has the authority to direct the military, but does he have the authority to direct them to build the wall?

I hope so, because the dems will NEVER, EVER allow it to be built if they can prevent it.

4 posted on 12/11/2018 8:21:13 AM PST by Sicon ("All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others." - G. Orwell)
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To: Olog-hai

I think he could go to the Army Corps of Engineering and put them to the task. He may be on limited funding but it’s a start.


5 posted on 12/11/2018 8:21:37 AM PST by pepsionice
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To: Logical me

Just do it out of the military budget. This is squarely a national security issue.


6 posted on 12/11/2018 8:21:40 AM PST by mrs9x
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To: Olog-hai

Sorry MSM, Trump comes out swinging, stronger than ever.


7 posted on 12/11/2018 8:22:35 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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To: mrs9x

As far as I know, Congress appropriates money in the defense budget. I don’t think Congress then has a say in how those funds are spent - i.e., do we build an aircraft carrier, a new military base, or a border wall, for example. So all they would have to do is move some money around.


8 posted on 12/11/2018 8:23:26 AM PST by mrs9x
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To: Olog-hai

What took him so long?


9 posted on 12/11/2018 8:23:32 AM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Sicon

I hope so, because the dems will NEVER, EVER allow it to be built if they can prevent it.

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The dems?

We really need to understand who the enemy is. We will never defeat them if we don’t acknowledge it’s the ruling elites the uni-party not the dems only that we are fighting.


10 posted on 12/11/2018 8:25:02 AM PST by Romans Nine
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To: Sicon
The military can build walls. Who built this one?

DMZ, 38th parallel Korea.

11 posted on 12/11/2018 8:25:54 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: pepsionice
I think he could go to the Army Corps of Engineering and put them to the task. He may be on limited funding but it’s a start.

That's where all of us step in with a GoFundMe-type campaign.


12 posted on 12/11/2018 8:25:57 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: Olog-hai

Where is the GOP?


13 posted on 12/11/2018 8:26:59 AM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our only true hope.,)
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To: Olog-hai; All
"Trump says military to build border wall if Democrats refuse"

There! Fixed it.

14 posted on 12/11/2018 8:27:11 AM PST by Amendment10
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To: Huskrrrr

Trump is just doing this to divert attention away from the hundreds of felonies he committed. .......or something like that.


15 posted on 12/11/2018 8:27:26 AM PST by shelterguy
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To: mrs9x

The border wall fist into so many places in the budget, infra structure, national defense, drug/contraband interdict, human trafficking etc etc etc.


16 posted on 12/11/2018 8:27:28 AM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Sicon

It’s a matter of national defense, so why not?


17 posted on 12/11/2018 8:29:07 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: mrs9x

Only issue MAY be is the spending authority for the funds. Just because funds have been “appropriated” doesn’t mean there is the requisite spending authority...I think. In my state government days I learned about that think I had “x” dollars in my budget to spend on a project, but I was advised even though the funds had been “appropriated” by the legislature, the authority to spend them had not. I don’t know if it is the same way at fed gov.


18 posted on 12/11/2018 8:33:34 AM PST by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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To: right way right

Same place the Uniparty always has been.


19 posted on 12/11/2018 8:40:23 AM PST by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: shelterguy

Right. ;0)


20 posted on 12/11/2018 8:42:01 AM PST by Huskrrrr
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