Posted on 03/28/2017 8:00:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
President Donald Trump's call for $1.5 billion this year to help build a wall along the border with Mexico could be in jeopardy as fellow Republicans in Congress weigh delaying a decision on the request.
Republican Senator Roy Blunt, a member of his party's leadership, told reporters on Tuesday that money for the wall likely would not be coupled with a spending bill that must pass by April 28 to avoid shutting down federal agencies whose funding expires then.
Blunt said the must-do funding "comes together better" without Trump's additional request for the border wall and military programs and could be considered "at a later time."
Democrats are threatening to block the bill funding federal agencies from April 29 to Sept. 30, the end of the current fiscal year, if money for the border wall is included....
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
This is why Trump won the election.
Washington is selling out America.
The “uniparty” is selling out America.
I can already see the 2018 mid term adverts.
PRyno and The Turtle are already skating on thin ice...
PING
The same Newsweek that was sold for $1 now has credibility as a website? This is a joke.
Everyone shouldn't pay their taxes next month. I always file on April 14th and get as many deductions and credits as I can, and send the gubmint a certified check. Damn right I'm not getting a refund, so the gubmint can sit on it interest-free.
Translation: some Republicans still haven’t got the message
That’s fine. Skip the Wall. A fifty yard deep minefield would be more cost effective anyway.
Seriously.
I posted this comment elsewhere - here are some simple solutions:
1. It’s estimated that the wall will cost each of us $150. I’m willing to write a check.
2. Start a gofundme campaign.
3. Give people a tax credit for contributing to the “build the wall” fund.
Voted for Gang of Amnesty:
Alexander, Corker, Flake, Graham, Hatch, Heller, Hoeven, McCain, Murkowsky and Rubio.
Would have but their votes weren’t needed:
Capito, Collins, Blunt, Cornyn, Gardner, Thune, Isackson, McConnell, Wicker, Cochran, Burr, Tillis, Portman.
A whole lot of Cantorizing needs to happen.
Trump should let them know he will veto any bill without funding for the wall.
Trump could end tax withholding by EO.
The Cheap Labor Express and Chamber of Commerce must have made $$$$$$$ office calls on Capitol Hill.
Trump should inform congress he is dissolving the legislature if they defund the wall.
Just like past elections where Republicans win and then promptly ignore why and sell out their voters. Hopefully Trump get himself and them back on track.
We need to take a mile wide strip of land on the Mexican side to use as a free fire zone.
Roy Blount is disgusting.
Are Republicans trying to piss off Americans who put them in power?
Many Washington corporate whores selling out Americans for cheap labor.
What are they worried about? Walls don’t work.
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