Tentative spending deal would avert government shutdown

The Columbian ^ | 12/12/2019 | ANDREW TAYLOR, (AP) American Presstitute

[RideForever]

A year ago, a deadlock over the wall led Trump to spark a 35-day partial government shutdown. The eventual agreement that emerged produced a template for the current pact: no “poison pill” policy provisions on topics such as abortion and the environment that could not pass muster with both Democrats and Republicans.

[RideForever]

The continuation of the Patriot Act is pending, likely in this bill that won't be made public until Monday. The Patriot Act allows the Deep State to use foreign agencies to raise funds for the globalists, aka, Ukraine, Benghazi, etc.

[Yo-Yo]

The eventual agreement that emerged produced a template for the current pact: no “poison pill” policy provisions on topics such as abortion and the environment that could not pass muster with both Democrats and Republicans.

Translation: No funding for The Wall.

[blackdog]

Kill the Patriot Act. Return to a line by line budget. No mass omnibus spending bill anymore. Since the FBI, CIA, NSA spend 25% of their resources spying on politicians, cut their budgets proportionate. Whither them on the vine.

[blackdog]

And BTW, When will the judges on the FISA court issue bench warrants for Crossfire Hurricane players who played the judges and court?

[karnage]

CUT ALL TAXES.
REDUCE ALL GOVERNMENT.
SHUT DOWN FEDGOV IF NECESSARY.

[IndispensableDestiny]

Translation: No funding for The Wall.

$1.4 billion in additional money for the U.S.-Mexico border wall. You would have known that had you read the article.

[dware]

Trump promised we would have an actual budget, as required by the Constitution, by September of 2017. That is the ONLY proper thing.

[BeauBo]

“no “poison pill” policy provisions... Translation: No funding for The Wall.”

Actually, the “poison pill for Republicans, would have been language that blocked the wall.

This bill actually includes about $1.4 billion in direct appropriation for the wall, in the DHS budget - same as prior years, based on the wedge that (then) Speaker Paul Ryan got inserted into the 10 year baseline budget. Being in the baseline budget puts it on virtual auto-pilot for annual funding.

The big money for wall building comes from the Defense budget though, where in FY2019, the President reprogrammed $2.5 billion from DoD’s Counter-Narcotics account (already obligated on contracts), and took $3.6 billion from Military Construction accounts (mostly still pending the outcome of legal challenges).

The National Defense Authorization Act passed the House on Wednesday, with none of the “poison pills” that would have prevented the President from doing the same thing in 2020.

So the likely result is several billion more dollars for wall building in 2020 - with the “face-saving” tactic of letting the President take it from DoD, rather than the Dems being forced to vote for it directly.

If we count the $3.6 billion that is pending legal ruling (likely to be approved), 509 miles of Trump-style Super Wall System are already funded.

The comprehensive plan for full operational control of the Southern border calls for a total of about 1,100 miles of barrier to be built. But that is carefully prioritized, so that the first 300-400 miles on the DHS priority list (border cities and the Rio Grande Valley), do the bulk of the job, and the last 300-400 miles is just covering the last, more marginal, potential alternate routes.

A few billion more in 2020, is enough to contract for a pretty strongly effective barrier system on the Southern Border - a credible wall in the first term. After that, the $1.4 billion in the baseline budget (out to 2027) is a pretty solid annual budget to wrap up the lower priority places, and chase any new changes made by the cartels.

On top of the big ticket and highly visible Wall System, there is also a major rollout occurring of technology (so called “Virtual Wall”) - faster than physical wall, in terms of miles, which will cover every mile of the border.

San Diego is now buttoned up with a mighty run of Trump-style super barrier (double run of 18-30 foot bollards, with an enforcement zone that has high speed patrol road, stadium lighting, persistent camera monitoring, alarms and sensors, all tied in to artificial intelligence monitoring software in the command post). But in the coming year, robust protection like that is going to spread much more widely - from 14 miles to a few hundred (high priority) miles. The effects are going to become quite significant.

The bottom line is that with 2019 emergency declaration, the President got the money for a greatly upgraded Southern Border, and with what the door is now open for in 2020, he will have access to enough to near completion (if not total completion) of the whole comprehensive plan.

[Yo-Yo]

Trump's 2017 request was for $5.7 billion, and we have yet to see what restrictions this $1.4 billion have tied to it, such as only to be used to replace existing barrier, granting local veto of building, etc.

But $1.4 billion is more than no funding, so I was wrong.