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Mulvaney: Trump Is Building A Wall Right Now, Here Are The Pictures
RealClearPolitics ^ | May 2, 2017 | Tim Hains

Posted on 05/04/2017 10:43:20 AM PDT by Red Steel

Director of the Office of Management and Budget Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that a wall is being built right now on the Mexican border.

MICK MULVANEY: The president delivered on his promises and got his priorities funded, and that's what the Democrats don't want you to know. They want you to think they won, but they don't want you to know the American people won here because the president simply out-negotiated them.

And we're going to build this. There are several hundreds of millions of dollars for us to replace cyclone fencing with 20-foot high steel wall. There's several hundreds of millions of dollars in the bill for us -- can we bring up the other photo please? Do we have the other photo?

There's several hundreds of millions of dollars for us to build levee walls along the southern border. And as many of you know who follow this issue, some of the most vulnerable areas that we have are places along rivers where we desperately need levees in order to provide the protection of the southern border that we -- that we need, OK?

We are building this now. There is money in this deal to build several hundreds of millions of dollars of this to replace this. ...

This is what DHS wanted. It's also half of the cost, so we can build twice as much of it. This is a huge win for border security.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; Government
KEYWORDS: border; buildthewall; first100days; mulvaney; trump; wall
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To: Cobra64

Make it thicker, reinforced with rebar and brimming with electronic security features (like the primo Israeli Border Security WALL has) and you’re good to go.


21 posted on 05/04/2017 11:13:26 AM PDT by House Atreides (Send BOTH Hillary & Bill to prison)
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To: Red Steel

Bottom line: Most Freepers fell for the MSM’s line of bovine waste.

LMAO!


22 posted on 05/04/2017 11:17:06 AM PDT by Snowybear
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To: Jim 0216
That’s great but guess who’s paying for it? It’s not Mexico.

I don't give a damn who pays for it as long as something is getting done. Anyone whining about that is just looking for something to whine about.

23 posted on 05/04/2017 11:19:46 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: ClearCase_guy

Bttt


24 posted on 05/04/2017 11:20:25 AM PDT by Guenevere (If my people......will humble themselves and pray and seek my face .....I will heal their land...)
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To: Vlad The Inhaler
Can't we get a line of razor blades along the top edge?

Would you settle for rolls of barbed wire?

25 posted on 05/04/2017 11:21:16 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Jarhead9297

Don’t you remember when candidate Trump would fire up the crowds with repeated promises to “Continue Obama-era improvements to no more than 40 miles of fencing and levy barriers”.

Those were exciting times.


26 posted on 05/04/2017 11:21:33 AM PDT by Dagnabitt (No Wall No Money. Just say no to GOP $olicitations.)
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To: C210N

It’s their lives on the line, not yours. Give them what they want


27 posted on 05/04/2017 11:22:09 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Quality_Not_Quantity
That door swings both ways.

If the rules are the same, but they are not.

US->Mehico -> run away under Ø. Under Trump???

Mehico->US -> rocks, bullets, trash, all OK

28 posted on 05/04/2017 11:25:39 AM PDT by C210N
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To: House Atreides

I think the wall will look different in different places. There is no one design that would suit every situation.


29 posted on 05/04/2017 11:25:54 AM PDT by McGavin999
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To: Dagnabitt

Too funny!

I WANT him to succeed desperately but not willing to trade in my principles and turn a blind eye to things being conveyed that aren’t actually being done. And to see folks not critically think these things through and research is mind boggling!

It’s no different than what we complained about with Obama zombies blindly following and overlooking anything of discomfort.
I’m starting to believe Trump when he said he could shoot someone in broad daylight in NYC and he’d still have his followers


30 posted on 05/04/2017 11:30:08 AM PDT by Jarhead9297
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To: Dagnabitt

Was that before or after he would say that the illegal and unconstitutional DACA would continue and illegal aliens given permits under it could rest easy?


31 posted on 05/04/2017 11:32:39 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Kazan

Who’s whining? It’s about holding Trump to his oft repeated promise of Mexico paying for the wall that I repeatedly challenged at the time with much opposition, but little rationale, on FR.


32 posted on 05/04/2017 11:33:22 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Helicondelta

Heh!


33 posted on 05/04/2017 11:36:52 AM PDT by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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To: C210N

All obstacles to be effective MUST be covered by observation or fire. (Read: Fire meaning small arms, mines, artillery, etc.)


34 posted on 05/04/2017 11:41:41 AM PDT by mosaicwolf
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To: Jim 0216

If you’re not happy with the wall being built, you’re a Never Trump dim wit just looking for something bellyache about. The wall will pay for itself.


35 posted on 05/04/2017 11:50:27 AM PDT by Kazan
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To: Jarhead9297; All

“Sorry folks you’ve been played”

Worthy of repeat.

Mulvaney shows himself to be a liar.


36 posted on 05/04/2017 11:51:26 AM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Jim 0216

“That’s great but guess who’s paying for it? It’s not Mexico.”

Mexico started paying for the wall when Trump convinced Carrier to keep most of it’s production in the U.S. Each time a factory keeps production here, Mehico is paying.

Comprende?


37 posted on 05/04/2017 12:00:35 PM PDT by Hennible Cobb (Don't wait for orders! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

So true. Trump and company also totally caved on DACA. Illegals on the program can stay and NEW permits are being issued. The program continues, full speed ahead.

Basically we are getting what we would have gotten under a Jeb Bush administration, some good judicial appointments, uniparty policies everywhere else.


38 posted on 05/04/2017 12:01:32 PM PDT by Dagnabitt (No Wall No Money. Just say no to GOP $olicitations.)
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To: Jarhead9297

** BOOKMARK THIS **


39 posted on 05/04/2017 12:09:47 PM PDT by Faith65 (Isaiah 40:31)
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To: Jim 0216

People who would’ve headed north but have changed their minds are now burdening the Mexican economy; not ours.

Mexico’s problem children who would’ve sought wealthier prospects northward are staying put and burdening Mexican ‘law enforcement’ (to the extent that it is rumored to exist, anyway).

Abandoned Moms with hungry mouths to feed are staying put in Mexico instead of dragging their sucklings north to get stuffed on American WIC, Section 8, Welfare, and a host of other Federal and State benefits.

Trump hasn’t yet addressed any potential alterations to U.S. Foreign Aid to Mexico. I’d expect that conversation to be an integral feature of the Mexican Presidente’s visit to the White House once he accepts Trump’s invitation.

Mexico IS PAYING NOW for this wall, and WILL CONTINUE TO PAY in the future for this wall.

Contentions to the contrary are indicative of a shallow analysis that fails to encompass — or just ignores outright — the full panoply of economic inputs to the funding equation. That’s a false DNC/MSM narrative being spoon-fed to the American Idle; don’t get suckered into believing it.


40 posted on 05/04/2017 12:25:12 PM PDT by HKMk23 (You ask how to fight an idea? Well, I'll tell you how: with another idea!)
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