Are you sure about the fifty billion? It seems to my poor memory that they authorized the wall and then slickly “forgot” to allocate the money.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/three-credit-suisse-bankers-arrested-for-involvement-in-mozambique-debt-deals-11546557595
By Matt Wirz
Updated Jan. 3, 2019 7:25 p.m. E
Three Former Credit Suisse Bankers Arrested for Involvement in Mozambique Debt Deals
Former finance minister of Mozambique and an executive of Privinvest Group also face charges
This has the whiff of CF about it.
nite.
I thought it was 26 billion. It got diverted to other things. Maybe there should be an investigation and a clawback of the misappropriated funds which can then be used for the wall.
Copying, jjotto has good memory and info on this topic (and others):
The $50 billion was in a report estimating its final cost. Only couple billion was actually appropriated, and that’s what we see on the border now; some, but hardly enough.
To show how fake was the support for a fence/wall was in 2006:
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2006/jul/14/20060714-120633-1188r/
... Less than two months after voting overwhelmingly to build 370 miles of new fencing along the border with Mexico, the Senate yesterday voted against providing funds to build it.
“We do a lot of talking. We do a lot of legislating,” said Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican whose amendment to fund the fence was killed on a 71-29 vote. “The things we do often sound very good, but we never quite get there.”
Mr. Sessions offered his amendment to authorize $1.8 billion to pay for the fencing that the Senate voted 83-16 to build along high-traffic areas of the border with Mexico. In the same vote on May 17, the Senate also directed 500 miles of vehicle barriers to be built along the border.
But the May vote simply authorized the fencing and vehicle barriers, which on Capitol Hill is a different matter from approving the federal expenditures needed to build it.
“If we never appropriate the money needed to construct these miles of fencing and vehicle barriers, those miles of fencing and vehicle barriers will never actually be constructed,” Mr. Sessions told his colleagues yesterday before the vote.
Virtually all Democrats were joined by the chamber’s lone independent and 28 Republicans in opposing Mr. Session’s amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Act...
Are you sure about the fifty billion? It seems to my poor memory that they authorized the wall and then slickly “forgot” to allocate the money.
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Good point.... did a tiny dig and found these. I’m not sure really what to make of it. Was it spent? Not spent? or stolen with slight of hand?
Gohmert seemed to be under the impression it had been appropriated, but not spent....
And here is a FWIW that goes to the heart of the question.
https://www.alipac.us/f9/what-happened-money-build-fence-84260-print/