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Posted on 03/27/2018 10:22:51 AM PDT by GIdget2004
President Trump frequently said Mexico would pay for a wall along the southern border as he sought the presidency in 2016. Now, he is privately pushing the U.S. military to fund construction of his signature project.
Trump, who told advisers he was spurned in a large spending bill last week when lawmakers only appropriated $1.6 billion for the border wall, has begun suggesting the Pentagon could fund the sprawling construction, citing a “national security” risk.
After floating the notion to several advisers last week, he told Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.) that the military should pay for the wall in a meeting last Wednesday in the White House residence, according to three people familiar with the meeting. Ryan offered little reaction to the notion, these people said, but senior Capitol Hill officials later said it was an unlikely prospect.
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[Congress just gave him the restriction on the amount.]
I interpreted that as specified funding allocated for the wall. Funding it though the military appropriation is different money. If the military and the President deem a wall is necessary for the defense of our nation, the wall construction is ON!
Nice ,they can add Minefields as well
>>>then make military bases along the southern border
We’re living in Mexico right now ( hubby is here on business). The first thing a family does when they buy land, is build a wall around it. And Mexicans hate renting to Mexicans (as opposed to expats) because after a while, they quit paying rent and become squatters. The house we are living in, although we pay our rent, the owners have refused to pay the home owners fees that include the water. They may cut off our waters.
Mexican culture has an ingrained corruption in it, from the Spaniards. They are expected to be corrupt and they expect you to be to, but not too much.
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Yup.
Yes, the deportations pay for the wall...The money saved by not providing these infiltrators with food and housing and medical care and education will run into multiple billions of dollars...That money could easily pay for the wall with billions left over...
With military funding, the wall becomes a military installation subject to secrecy and more importantly armed military to protect the contractors from progressive Ameritrash intent on stopping the effort .
All sorts of other benefits will apply including the courts have no jurisdiction. Military law will prevail. Treasonous judges intent on delay will become guilty of national security violators.
A stretch and a real socialist argument. What about taxes? Don’t they have to pay taxes? If so, our mostly unconstitutional socialist government would lose revenue. Anyway, the answer is getting rid of unconstitutional socialism, not use it to pay for the wall.
Illegal Mexicans send billions of American dollars to Mexico each year...A bigly portion of that goes, indirectly, to the Mexican gov't...
That money WILL stay in the U.S. being earned and spent by American citizens...That will add to our tax base while Mexico has to give up their ill gotten income which will pay for the wall...
Perhaps you thought that that Trump meant the Mexican President would have to take a cut in pay and send that cut to Trump...
I think most of us understood that Mexico's financial loss from American manufacturing jobs leaving Mexico and the loss of income from their illegals in our country, which will have a major financial benefit for our country is what Trump was referring to when he said Mexico would pay for the wall...
I am sorry you are there, I have done loads of work in Mexico and south america, yes you are correct
If that's true, it's time to search every person and vehicle crossing the border...That would stop the drugs coming thru the normal ports of entry...
But the drug flow wouldn't stop...The cartel would make their own illegal border crossing ports to avoid the normal ports of entry...So we'd need the wall anyway...
There you go Bolton...Get to work!...Fix this crap!
No, he obviously wasn't talking about something as stupid as that even though during the campaign he was asked basically a question like that and how he was planning on Mexico paying for the wall. He consistently answered it would be by tariffs and the like. But U.S. tariffs make the American consumer pay, not Mexico.
I don't recollect Trump saying tariffs would pay for the wall...Tariffs had to do with the unfair trade while the wall of course had to do with illegal immigration...
Donald Trump threatens Mexico with 20pc import tariff to pay for southern border wall
“When they say ‘but Mexico can’t pay for the wall,’ I say of course they can,” said the Republican frontrunner at a town hall in Norwalk, Iowa, on Jan. 20. “We have a trade deficit with Mexico that’s unbelievably big. Humongous. It’s a humongous number. It’s billions and billions of dollars — far more than what we’re talking about for the wall. The wall’s peanuts compared to that.”
Trump’s statement prompted these questions: What is the amount of the trade deficit and the cost to build the wall? Mostly importantly, does a big trade deficit mean the Mexican government has money to pay for a wall?
The Trump campaign did not respond for this fact-check.
Listen Sherlock, without revising NAFTA, NONE of the jobs already moved to Mexico are ever coming back. By correcting the $40-50 Billion yearly trade deficit with Mexico, at least there is a slim chance SOME of those products will be manufactured here in good ole USA.
Good, cost of goods should go up instead of relying on cheap Mexican labor. And we can afford those higher costs because of higher paying manufacturing jobs.
Back in 1960’s, I paid $300 (inflation adjusted) for a pair of American made average dress shoes. But it was no problem since I worked in manufacturing and made $100 per hour (again inflation adjusted).
Haha but drugs coming to ports have to pass check points. Drugs coming across the open southern border avoid all check point.
The only way those jobs will move back is if there is an incentive for the manufacturing firms to make the investment, create the industrial base, and then hire people. If the only way to make that profitable for the manufacturers is through a tariff that can be revoked on a whim then no company in their right mind will make the investment. Sherlock.
Well the higher paid manufacturing workers maybe. But what about the rest of us who are faced with higher prices for goods on our non-manufacturing salaries?
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