55 miles from zero is better then nothing
Have the military provide ‘beds’ for illegal invaders
problem solved.
“the deal is set to tack on stipulations as to what the barrier can be made from and where it can be placed.“
And there it is.
$1.3B is an insult. F them, enough is enough. Declare a national emergency - because it IS - and issue an executive order.
He does not need to declare a national emergency, and shouldn’t, though it would create a huge kerfuffle and Trump likes a good kerfuffle.
GOPe and their cheap labor funders, sold America down the river once again...
If Trump accepts this garbage and does nothing else, he’s toast politically.
Veto the bill, Mr. President. So what if the federal workers are given another paid vacation. If they don’t like it, they can quit and get an honest job instead of doing make-work on the taxpayer dime.
Either shutdown the small piece of unnecessary government that is under discussion and leave it down until we get the wall, or build it with other legal means. This is not a deal to be accepted either way. $1B with strings attached to make it unworkable and ineffective is not a deal.
I was thinking this is where they would land. The problem for Trump is the base wants a lot more (including me). I am not sure Trump gets that point though.
It will be interesting to see where Trump goes with this.
Trump would be smart to come out and state that he accepts the money (1.3 billion) and then use other defence money to fund additional barriers. I hope he has the guts to do it.
Who in hell cares about border BOLLARDS..?
Those are for stopping vehicles.
Bollards DO NOT stop pedestrians, they don’t stop ANYONE on foot, which is the Dem idea.
$1 billion, that’s much more than we give EVERY YEAR to at least 7 different sh*thole countries that hate us.
We could suspend foreign aid to just Iraq for just one year and we’d have enough Wall money —BAMMO..!
Paging Admiral Akbar!
Shut the damn government down again and veto everything sent up from Congress, related or not, until they put up $10 billion for the wall with no stipulations about what sort of wall, ICE, beds, etc.
Then ice the cake by declaring the Mexican drug lords a clear and present danger to the US and tell Congress the laws that enable the War On Terror enable the President to take any and all actions required to destroy the Mexican cartels, including building a wall on the Southern border.
If they want to repeal part or all of the Patriot Act, let them, but don't sign the repeal so they have to override a veto to do it.
They called the tune now let them dance to it.
And that’s what they are telling us.. What other surprises are in the bill?
This is not a negotiated middle ground. This is once again the gop giving in to the tantrums of the leftist democrats. This is decidedly not winning.
JoMa
Its the catch and release fantasy of the Koch Bros .
Trump needs a new party .
He has two America hating parties to deal with.br /> Just kill this insult .
Its worse than doing nothing and then building the wall thru the Defense dept .
Only way to describe this "deal":
Bush League Republicans MUST become extinct before the Republic does.
What happened to “not one penny” Nancy?
Wall is under construction in California and Texas right now. More miles coming.
California is only 40 miles away from a fully walled border.
It’s all good. How many miles would we have under ANY other candidate for President in 2016?
This is a bill for FY2019 which ends in September. They will have trouble getting the $1.8b appropriated and committed by the end of the FY. Meanwhile, the Office of Budget is busy reprogramming 2 year money to meet Trump’s requirements. That will be done quietly after this matter is passed.
Meanwhile, the clueless can rant and rave, post using all caps phrases and large fonts, and threatening to charge off and elect Rand Paul or some other nut case. Let the fools be fools and trust Trump.
Take the money, and use it to build in California. Use other funds to build the rest.
I’m tired of this discussion; everyone has already shown their cards. Declare the national emergency. Build the Wall. Press for a rapid review when America’s globalist enemies file a case in front of their hand-picked Obama judge. And then make all the necessary funding available to build 1,900 miles of Border Wall this year. Don’t just go for symbolic progress - get the job done now.
President Trump doesn’t need this issue to get reelected. Instead, he can point to the accomplishment and push for a second big task for his second term. [I want that to be deporting every single illegal in our country, but it’s better politically if he articulates a different priority during the campaign and then deports all those criminals while also accomplishing his new goal.] How about ending HIV/AIDS completely as a second-term goal?
Throw in three more Supreme Court picks, 100-plus lower court judges, and a shift toward smaller federal government and more restrained spending, and the Trump Presidency will be a big win for America.