More kick the can down the road.
I don’t really see the difference. The Dems will still postulate and claim Trump is cutting programs like Social Security etc. And threats to cut the military are not a good thing now. Send it back. Shut it down. Don’t be afraid of these politicians. They have much to lose if they are shown to be betraying American safety.
I like the idea of using El Chapo assets to pay for it. He won’t need them where he is going!
The Cartels will never allow the US to have a secure border.
This sequester talk is no different than the Birth Certificate talk.
“If Congress does not lift the caps by December, then automatic $55 billion across-the-board cuts to domestic discretionary spending will take place, while defense spending will be cut by $71 billion...”
IF. IF. Let’s see. Who runs Congress? That would be Pelosi and the turtle overseeing a bunch of dems, RINOs and a few decent ones. Under this so-called plan Trump drags this thing out another year, wastes time, Congress votes to lift the caps and Trump — loses — again.
Trump needs to take the $1.3B, dig up the balance from the military, build the wall now and stop d**king around with Congress. In which case he will need all the spare defense money they’ve got. A sequestered defense budget works against him.
Kick the can.
Seeing as how the real cost of the wall is about 26 billion, that'd be about right.
I’ll be surprised if Trump allows defense spending to be cut.
Democrats would be all for it.
The end of this year is the beginning of an election year. Nothing gets done in an election year.
That is the deal breaker.
In 10 months’ time, if Congress fails to act, then an automatic sequester will kick in that would reduce federal spending in 2020 to levels that Congress and President Barack Obama set in the Budget Control Act of 2011.
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I like the sound of this. Now I see the wisdom of putting a guy like Mulvaney up close with the President. That guys knows the in’s an out’s of federal spending. Invaluable.
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There is money he can shift from different areas of the government to pay for the wall without declaring an emergency,it’s been done by past Presidents,he has the authority,that is what he needs to do.
Maybe he could just declare the entire stretch of the border to be an Army Base? Then he could spend DoD money to build it.
It’d be cool if he did that.