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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It’s easy to find
Also look up the letter he sent McConnell and RYan twenty minutes after signing the bill. Two pieces of the same puzzle.
A lifelong frustration has been rarely being able to remember jokes, but one makes do with one’s limitations.
Trump’s not going anywhere, let alone get impeached.
You betcha!
On recalling same, I was agreeing with you, actually.
Surely tomkats do not experience frustration?
“The army Corp. Of engineers built dams along flood plains, why not a border wall?”
They’re a bunch of effing commies who are all into the environment, they’d not do it without a fight. They might “mow the grass” and pet the rattlesnakes, but that’s about it.
I love the fact that Trump thinks outside the box. The army Corp. Of engineers built dams along flood plains, why not a border wall?
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Construct a wall out of the crushed bones of RINOs mixed with the tears of SJWs.
Never heard an Omnibus is not the budget.. Been gov’t accountant for almost 30 years and always treated omnibus like a regular budget and rules of appropriation law.. funds can only be obligated according to time, amount and purpose.
“If indeed the Wall construction begins..”
I think impeachment proceedings begin that day. They will scream he is violating a signed agreement. I just don’t see doing him this. Damn those bastards for sticking that clause in there but that was the insurance against this move.
>> Someone posted on twitter earlier that this bill is not an actual budget <<
Well, if they did post thusly, now we can be sure that Twitter has not yet installed an anti-stupidity filter.
More often than not, sadly.
(and the nick has nothing to do with cats - a fact likely to invite felinophile enmity)
Yep.
Speaking of Pence, where is he hiding?
My wife’s cousin posted on facebook
that he read something on instagram
that quoted from a posting on twitter
that said none of this stuff was true.
Build it and man it.
This discussion went on for some time earlier today. Basically the omnibus is one third of the total budget. The budget has accountability. IT is a detailed plan. THink Dave Ramsey The Omnibus is a place saver tying together different areas to one area — a need to fund. It’s like your pocketbook. Money there you spend at your own discretion
He was up here in NH two days ago for a GOP fundraiser, and calling in on local talk radio shows extolling all the wonders of the Bill Trump just signed.
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