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Trump privately presses for military to pay for border wall
Washington Post ^ | 03/27/2018 | Josh Dawsey and Mike DeBonis

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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To: Sacajaweau

We’ll see.


41 posted on 03/27/2018 10:49:47 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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To: GIdget2004

Ryan offered little reaction to the notion,................... Maybe his mind was on the wall they could use to get rid of him? (along with McConnell)


42 posted on 03/27/2018 10:54:39 AM PDT by Bringbackthedraft (Damn Tag line, fouled up again, thanks cursor.)
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To: Aevery_Freeman
Just building the wall will cost Mexico loads in prison costs.

That is not "Mexico paying for the wall".

43 posted on 03/27/2018 10:56:41 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: USS Alaska

So “Mexico will pay for the wall” is like spillin’ grape juice on a white shirt when you were 10? OK, guess I’ll go along with that.


44 posted on 03/27/2018 10:57:49 AM PDT by Jim W N
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To: Slyfox

The article says this about funding:

“The Pentagon has plenty of money, but reprogramming it for a wall would require votes in Congress that the president does not seem to have. Taking money from the current 2018 budget for the wall would require an act of Congress, said a senior Pentagon official.

“To find the money in the 2019 defense budget, Trump would have to submit a budget amendment that would still require 60 votes in the Senate, the official said.”


45 posted on 03/27/2018 10:59:43 AM PDT by GIdget2004
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To: GIdget2004

President Trump: Raise your tax on out of country monetary transfers from 5% to 50% and the wall can be built very quickly.


46 posted on 03/27/2018 11:00:06 AM PDT by ridesthemiles
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To: ClearCase_guy
Using appropriated funds doesn’t mean Mexico if off the hook.

Of course it doesn't.

47 posted on 03/27/2018 11:00:09 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: WayneS
The U.S. military is the U.S. taxpayers.

And the U.S. defense budget is funded by those taxpayers. Not Mexico.

48 posted on 03/27/2018 11:01:21 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: entropy12
Mexico will pay for 10 walls over 10 years after NAFTA is re-negotiated by Trump Admin.

How?

49 posted on 03/27/2018 11:02:29 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: GIdget2004
So, it took the MSM a few days to figure this out.

Now that it has, the caterwauling is about to begin in earnest.

50 posted on 03/27/2018 11:03:14 AM PDT by daler
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To: GIdget2004

In the 1950s, the building of the Interstate Highway system was designated as a national defense project.


51 posted on 03/27/2018 11:03:21 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: kenmcg
Reduce our foreign aid to Mexico to build the wall.

That's money from U.S. taxpayers, not Mexico.

52 posted on 03/27/2018 11:03:26 AM PDT by DoodleDawg
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To: DoodleDawg

Yes. That was my point.


53 posted on 03/27/2018 11:03:36 AM PDT by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill.)
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To: GreenHornet
In the 1950s, the building of the Interstate Highway system was designated as a national defense project.

One would think that preserving the 2nd amendment could also be a national security item, time to add 50 state reciprocity.

54 posted on 03/27/2018 11:05:33 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: DoodleDawg

That’s money from U.S. taxpayers, not Mexico.

‘same thing, it just subtracting payments from what we give/gave them..


56 posted on 03/27/2018 11:08:23 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: GIdget2004

Again with the leakers!!! Out with their tongues, off with their heads!


57 posted on 03/27/2018 11:09:58 AM PDT by blu (Save us the time of explaining the links...read the article...unless you're Lazamatz.)
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To: GIdget2004

For God’s sake who care who is going to pay for the wall. Campaign promises or campaign rhetoric who cares so long as the wall gets built. This side show that the media wants us to focus on is complete bull sh*t. I do not care if Mexico pays for the wall or is the Amish in southern Pennsylvania pays for the wall. The issue is and has been that we must stop illegal immigration. Period! The rest of the stuff is just a distraction.


58 posted on 03/27/2018 11:10:56 AM PDT by dirtymac
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To: GreenHornet

well an invasion by foreigners seems to be happening and a national security concern..then we have sanctuary states adding to the urgency to stop the invasion.


59 posted on 03/27/2018 11:12:32 AM PDT by rolling_stone
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To: GIdget2004
I read somewhere on this site that the Omnibus is not a budget. If that is true then the prez has a lot of discretion to where that money will go.

Obama, in his Omnibus, gave money to the banks and things like Solyndra, which was a huge waste.

If Trump does consolidate his entire military percentage of the Omnibus, then we can probably get the wall, a pay increase for the military and repair of hardware, which was his goal.

60 posted on 03/27/2018 11:12:42 AM PDT by Slyfox (Not my circus, not my monkeys)
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