President Trump freezes $200M in Syria recovery funds. https://t.co/K6K3FWrowH— Nick Short 🇺🇸 (@PoliticalShort) March 31, 2018
Secretary of State Rex Tillerson announced the additional funding in Kuwait in February during a ministerial meeting of the coalition fighting the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS).
Trump has since fired Tillerson as head of the State Department.
Trump has appeared increasingly eager for an early U.S. exit from Syria. During a speech in Ohio on Thursday, he said that the U.S. would be "coming out of Syria, like, very soon," and called on other countries to "take care of it now."
"Very soon, very soon, we’re coming out," he said. "We’re going to get back to our country, where we belong, where we want to be."
Thank you! He said “ Very soon” with great emphasis.
Will Trump be permitted to redirect the Syria war funds to his WALL? The timing is so abrupt that there seemed to me a logical enough intersect.
Congress gives POTUS the middle finger on funding for the Wall.
Trump eyes the Defense Department for Wall funding, right?
Next, we’re diving out of Syria.
(Also, may be a remote possibility that Trump has made a deal with Putin somehow, about USA leaving Syria, *if*, Putin will agree to aid allies in the coming pile-on against Iran.)
So is this the real reason Rex got the boot?