DMZ, 38th parallel Korea.
Posted on 12/11/2018 8:16:46 AM PST by Olog-hai
President Donald Trump sought Tuesday to pressure Democratic congressional leaders into supporting his demand for billions of dollars to build his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, threatening to have the military build it “if Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country.”
Trump tweeted the threat hours before Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer and House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi were to meet with Trump at the White House in an effort to avert a partial government shutdown on Dec. 21, when funding for some agencies is scheduled to expire.
In a series of tweets Tuesday, Trump said immigration and border patrol agents and thousands of active-duty service members he sent to the border have done a “FANTASTIC” job. But he said “A Great Wall would be, however, a far easier & less expensive solution.”
Trump said he looked forward to meeting with Schumer and Pelosi, but claimed they don’t want border security for “strictly political reasons.”
“If the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall. They know how important it is!” Trump said. …
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MAGA!
Damn right! Please Trump put the military on building and start in in January.
I hope so, because the dems will NEVER, EVER allow it to be built if they can prevent it.
I think he could go to the Army Corps of Engineering and put them to the task. He may be on limited funding but it’s a start.
Just do it out of the military budget. This is squarely a national security issue.
Sorry MSM, Trump comes out swinging, stronger than ever.
As far as I know, Congress appropriates money in the defense budget. I don’t think Congress then has a say in how those funds are spent - i.e., do we build an aircraft carrier, a new military base, or a border wall, for example. So all they would have to do is move some money around.
What took him so long?
I hope so, because the dems will NEVER, EVER allow it to be built if they can prevent it.
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The dems?
We really need to understand who the enemy is. We will never defeat them if we don’t acknowledge it’s the ruling elites the uni-party not the dems only that we are fighting.
DMZ, 38th parallel Korea.
Where is the GOP?
There! Fixed it.
Trump is just doing this to divert attention away from the hundreds of felonies he committed. .......or something like that.
The border wall fist into so many places in the budget, infra structure, national defense, drug/contraband interdict, human trafficking etc etc etc.
It’s a matter of national defense, so why not?
Only issue MAY be is the spending authority for the funds. Just because funds have been “appropriated” doesn’t mean there is the requisite spending authority...I think. In my state government days I learned about that think I had “x” dollars in my budget to spend on a project, but I was advised even though the funds had been “appropriated” by the legislature, the authority to spend them had not. I don’t know if it is the same way at fed gov.
Same place the Uniparty always has been.
Right. ;0)
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