Posted on 03/27/2018 6:09:13 PM PDT by Revel
Democratic leader Sen. Chuck Schumer says any effort by President Donald Trump to use military funding to build his border wall be blocked by lawsuits, according to the Washington Post.
The Washington Post reported that Trump is pushing military officials to shift a very small portion of their $700 billion 2018 budget to build up border defenses, and quoted Schumer saying:
This would be a blatant misuse of military funds and tied up in court for years. [Defense] Secretary Mattis ought not bother and instead use the money to help our troops, rather than advance the president’s political fantasies.
Schumer’s threat came after he worked with GOP leaders to allocate only $641 million for the construction of new border fences in the 2018 omnibus bill. The bill also includes language which bars Trump from spending money on the concrete-and-metal prototype walls which he touted in early March. According to the Post:
Trump, who told advisers he was spurned in a large spending bill last week when lawmakers only appropriated $1.6 billion for the border wall, has begun suggesting the Pentagon could fund the sprawling construction, citing a “national security” risk.
After floating the notion to several advisers last week, he told Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that the military should pay for the wall in a meeting last Wednesday in the White House residence, according to three people familiar with the meeting. Ryan offered little reaction to the notion, these people said, but senior Capitol Hill officials later said it was an unlikely prospect.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Few will be reading this but this reporting talk show is solidly conservative. As of 2am 3/29 this has not yet been posted here in FR/
The midnight to 4 am syndicated radio show “Red Eye” is reporting that the Chicago Tribune has reported that someone in the Pentagon told their reporter that the President would have to submit the change to the Senate and it would require 60 votes to approve the change the President recommended.
Who defines “loser”?
Say both the Plaintiff and Respondent sink $100,000 in legal fees into a $1,000,000 lawsuit. And let’s say that — when the dust settles — the Judge rules that the Respondent is only on the hook for $100,000 — who lost?
The Respondent escaped 90% of the claim he was sued for.
The Plaintiff only won 10% of the claim he sued for.
A judge could easily look at the money and say that the Plaintiff who spent $100k to essentially break even “lost” his case; that the Respondent who spent $100k to avoid paying $900k more is the winner, and therefor the Plaintiff has to pay the Respondent’s legal fees.
I heard this also. There is no excuse why the wall was not in the omnibus bill. It should have been vetoed without it.
Please. Make my day. Sue away. Mid-terms will be fun.
That deep state Pentagon official doesn’t know what he’s talking about. The only limits in the bill related to the $1.6B allocated for fence extension and repair - so if Trump tried to fund wall with that money, then sure, he needs the 60 votes - but to use a chunk of the $725B allocated to the DoD, he doesn’t need squat.
This unnamed official is simply lying in a futile attempt to deter Trump from using his rightful executive powers as CiC over the DoD funds available to him for any legitimate national security project, which certainly includes a border wall.
Don't know when that was taken but it sure puts a sh!teating grin on my face. Enjoy!
I’ve often wondered how much a Bumfights video of a bum beating the teeth out of Shucky Chumer’s lying face would go for on the open market.
For what Schumer is doing to this country, I would celebrate if Schumer were mugged by an illegal MS13 gang.
Ann Coulter tweet - “Any lawyer telling Trump he doesn’t have the authority as COMMANDER IN CHIEF to build a wall on our border to repel this relentless attack is too stupid to breathe.”
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/978881013110755328
Some other noteworthy Ann Coulter tweets:
“TOTAL B.S. Wapo: “Taking money from the 2018 budget for the wall would require an act of Congress, a senior Pentagon official said.”
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/978878514836508672
“NO legislature and NO court can take away the president’s authority to repel an attack on our nation, you drooling sh$t-for-brains morons.”
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/978883156257406976
Was Obama’s attack on Gaddafi undertaken to repel an attack on our nation? WHERE DID OBAMA GET THE $$$? WHERE DID HE GET THE AUTHORITY?
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/978882776429744133
Mexican drug cartels are engaging in chemical warfare against Americans, with heroin & fentanyl killing more Americans EVERY YEAR than were killed in the entire Vietnam War.
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/978880603130130432
And finally loved her retort to someone trying to school her on the Constitution by saying “Coulter is an atty but apparently forgot about Congress’ power under Art. 1 to raise and support Armies, and the power of the purse.”
Her reply:
So you’re saying congress will defund the entire armed forces in order to stop the wall? Yes, that’s a totally realistic possibility.
https://twitter.com/AnnCoulter/status/978885974754250752
Great summary
One other minor point to add from link:
Definition of wall
1 a : a high thick masonry structure forming a long rampart or an enclosure chiefly for defense
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wall
Of course not. It's just another continuing resolution. The government is still not operating on a budget.
I was looking for a Gulliver/Lilliput picture; but all I got were men in bondage images.
But Chucky would probably like that too much.
Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills the upper boulders in the sun; And makes gaps even two can pass abreast. The work of hunters is another thing: I have come after them and made repair Where they have left not one stone on a stone, But they would have the rabbit out of hiding, To please the yelping dogs. The gaps I mean, No one has seen them made or heard them made, But at spring mending-time we find them there. I let my neighbor know beyond the hill; And on a day we meet to walk the line And set the wall between us once again. We keep the wall between us as we go. To each the boulders that have fallen to each. And some are loaves and some so nearly balls We have to use a spell to make them balance: ‘Stay where you are until our backs are turned!' We wear our fingers rough with handling them. Oh, just another kind of outdoor game, One on a side. It comes to little more: There where it is we do not need the wall: He is all pine and I am apple orchard. My apple trees will never get across And eat the cones under his pines, I tell him. He only says, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.' Spring is the mischief in me, and I wonder If I could put a notion in his head: 'Why do they make good neighbors? Isn’t it Where there are cows? But here there are no cows. Before I built a wall I’d ask to know What I was walling in or walling out, And to whom I was like to give offense. Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, That wants it down.' I could say ‘Elves’ to him, But it’s not elves exactly, and I’d rather He said it for himself. I see him there Bringing a stone grasped firmly by the top In each hand, like an old-stone savage armed. He moves in darkness as it seems to me, Not of woods only and the shade of trees. He will not go behind his father’s saying, And he likes having thought of it so well He says again, ‘Good fences make good neighbors.'
They were too tall; right?
Schumer's legal team of prosecutors, meeting to map out strategy.
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