A bill signed by President Bush Oct. 4 allocated $1.2 billion to be spent during the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 for Southwest border fencing and other barriers.
The money has already been appropriated to the fence .
1035rep WROTE:
[It is you that does not understand.]
Okay, I see that you're the type who reads the headlines, but never finishes the story.
[A bill signed by President Bush Oct. 4 allocated $1.2 billion to be spent during the fiscal year beginning Oct. 1 for Southwest border fencing and other barriers.]
All true! Now, let me play Paul Harvey and 'splain you "the rest of the story."
The cheapest estimate to build this 700 mile long fence is $8 billion. If every single penny of the $1.2B were spent to build a fence, you'd have enough to build about 100 miles. See, no fence?
But, the lie and deception get worse. See, after allocating the $1.2B, the Congress then said to the President, "BTW, you do /not/ have to use this money to build a fence." Do you understand? Congress did not require the President to build the fence, thus ensuring that it never will be built.
This type of escape clause is rare. Normally, when Congress approves funding for a project, that funding is appropriated to that project and that project only. Why? So that when a Republican Congress says, "Take this money and build an aircraft carrier," they don't want some liberal socialist Democrat president taking the money and using it to sign up 10,000 more people on the welfare rolls.
The ONLY thing Congress required of the Administration is that a member testify before Congress a month after this upcoming election about the feasability of building a fence.
1035rep, see if you can find the video of President Bush on the O'Reilly Factor this past week. Bush began talking about the fence and O'Reilly called him on the lack of funding. Our President did /not/ deny O'Reilly's claim. In fact, our President changed the subject very quickly.
There will be no fence.