Coulter has been comparing Trumps campaign promises to actual delivered work.
My tagline, which I began using 4 years ago, in 2015, was based on his promises.
“Coulter has been comparing Trumps campaign promises to actual delivered work.”
One critical piece of work that has been delivered already, is getting 11.3 billion dollars. Done. ($4.6 in appropriations, 2017-2020; and $6.7 billion through the President’s extraordinary and emergency measures)
You have done construction, and know that things are not finished in a month or two. Typically, years of preparation precede any major construction (planning, design, financing, permitting,etc.) - even more so with Government programs. All that has been occurring. A lot has actually been finished (like planning, design and financing; as well as long lead time Government Contracting actions).
Not only has $11.3 billion dollars already been made available for contracting specific highly prioritized segments (509 miles, plus whatever the 2020 appropriation will build, probably 60-70 more) - but the President is free this year to invoke the same measures that he used last year, to take more funds from other sources.
If the President re-allocates as much this year as he did in 2019 ($6.7 billion), it would total a nice round $18 billion in his first term - inside the range of estimates for the total bill. Essentially, the barrier required in the Comprehensive Plan to Achieve Full Operational Control of the Southern Border (about half of the total length of the border), will be funded and on contract this year, as well as technology (”virtual fence”) for the whole of the border.
The contractors will need about another year beyond 2020 to finish their work, but the Government’s work of funding, specifying and contracting are well on track to complete in President Trump’s first term - enough to secure the whole of the Southern Border, as analyzed painstakingly by the experts.
Who else could have accomplished that, in the face of all the resistance and obstacles? Certainly not Ann Coulter.
Ann Coulter knows the magnitude of the efforts expended by the Trump Administration, and the magnitude of the accomplishment made. She persists in being deliberately misleading about it, spinning it even more negatively than the NY Times.
The true bottom line is that President Trump is delivering border security far beyond what any other candidate would have, or probably could have done - essentially securing the border in his first term, as promised, despite epic obstruction (including Ann Coulter’s treachery).