Posted on 03/24/2018 3:26:05 PM PDT by zencycler
President Donald Trump briefly threatened to veto a giant spending bill on Friday and then reluctantly signed it to keep the military funded.
The lack of funding for a border wall with Mexico is likely one of the president’s biggest frustrations. Trump mentioned the wall when he threatened to veto the bill. The $1.3 trillion budget includes just $1.6 billion for wall construction along the southern border, far short of the $25 billion needed to accomplish Trump’s signature campaign promise.
To make matters worse, the spending bill specifically prohibits Trump from building the kind of wall he wants. The president nevertheless celebrated the progress and pointed out that construction can begin immediately.
But Trump also dropped an eyebrow-raising hint that he could take an unprecedented option and build the wall using the enormous military budget.
“I want to address the situation on border security, which I call national defense,” Trump said. “I call it stopping drugs from pouring across our border. And I call it illegal immigration. It’s all of those things. But national defense is a very important two words. Because by having a strong border system, including a wall, we are in a position, militarily, that is very advantageous.”
For the first time, Trump underlined the significance of the barrier as a military structure and a matter of national defense. Up to now, the president promoted the wall as a way to curtail illegal immigration and stop the deadly flood of illicit drugs. The introduction of the wall’s military function is significant, especially in terms of funding it.
Roughly half of the spending bill is dedicated to the military for a total of over $654 billion allotted to the Pentagon’s base budget and overseas counterinsurgency operations. That’s enough to build the wall 26 times.
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I like it. Brilliant really.
Obama left us worse off than carter.
A lot of the people that hate him do so only because he’s rich.
And I’m sure you’re aware that that is precisely the type that many/most of the Founders thought would be best for the job and the Nation.
Someone with resources (and integrity) sufficient to not be tempted to loot the public coffers.
I don’t go much for hero worship, but given the job and the circumstances around it, this guy is pretty damned amazing, and he’s only been at it a year.
The difference between the two: Carter is a Christian and loves this country.
There is a lot of human trafficking coming over the border and he named stopping human trafficking and corruption in an National Emergency EO. So building the wall to halt human trafficking could be seen as responsive to the National Emergency.
OK, call it a ""dam" then, to stop the "flooding" along the border.
A one-piece continuous, 30ft. high dam with a patrol road and light towers on top.
SS1
Seriously, that’s what ZF was predicting ?
Hillary thought she was going to win more states than Obama, so she showed up in Georgia and other states where she had no chance. If she had done more campaigning in MI, PA and WI, where Trump won by 70,000 votes in total, she might be sitting in the Oval Office today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Sailer#The_%22Sailer_Strategy%22
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_2016
Michigan WTA 2,268,839 47.27% – 2,279,543 47.50%
Pennsylvania WTA 2,926,441 47.46% – 2,970,733 48.18%
Wisconsin WTA 1,382,536 46.45% – 1,405,284 47.22%
Close only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades.
And without the couple million fraudulent (D)himmi ballots, the popular wouldn’t have even been close.
Not that the popular is worth a handful of warm spit to begin with.
My thought was this: if ever a wall is built, we’ll have to hire Mexican’s to build it.
If Carter was really a Christian, why does he hate and denigrate Israel?
It’s an age thing. My great grandma was raised southern Baptist. She had a similar attitude
bkmk
Here’s the thing though: how can you be a Christian and hate what shod loves the most?
Since I do not have this “letter” could you summarize it. Or it is likely that I am clueless and all else are informed as to the content?
Or it could be a Nigerian scam?
...only the money allocated to repairing the fence.
If the President uses money from the military budget to pay for the wall, I will be awestruck by his genius.
Even back before he was unfortunately our governor of georgia we thought he was a communist.That may be part of your answer.
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No, using a contractor.
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Posse Comitatus.
Can’t deploy the army within the borders of the US. (unless it is to burn women and children to death in Waco).
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