Just today's transfer, is more money than the President received from Congress for the wall in 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined. And it is only a part of what will be hitting the street this year.
We are off to the races with a massive Border Wall building program.
“...account will be transferred to the Pentagon’s counter-drug fund...”
Sounds perfectly appropriate to me considering the wall will do more to “counter” drugs entering this country than just about anything else they could spend it on.
Stick it Congress.
Add it to the winning pile
A key obligation of the DoD is to secure our borders. DoD should be spending a lot more than this, and, there should be troops constantly on patrol all along the border. Mine fields are also absolutely appropriate in key places.
“...Congress twice voted to overturn Trump’s emergency declaration, which allowed him to reprogram defense funds for the wall, but were unable to override his vetoes....”
Another small example of how Congress DOES NOT CARE about the will of the electorate.
FYI, there is already over a 100 miles of walls built, and numerous projects in process as I write this. More contracts/bids are being reviewed. Plus, it's amazing that Pres. Trump got Mexico to put troops on their southern border, and contain the phony asylum seekers in Mexico. Many are now self deporting back to their countries of origin. Other are taking up Mexico's offer of asylum.
I have never seen in my life a President keep so many promises. I've been saying for years that we need an accomplished businessman in the WH and not another politician.
I remember being told that Mexico was going to pay for this wall, or at least part of it. Is the new trade agreement somehow going to provide the money from them for Trump to keep that promise?
Oh the ‘huge manatees’.
It never gets old...
Way to go President Trump this is such an important thing it is a physical testament to a great president keeping faith with the American people and he did it in spite of Congress. The wall will remind the American people the president kept faith and his word with the nation. He will have taken a significant step to permanently solve a problem this nation has been facing for decades.the wall will force all the nations South of the border to confront their broken systems and they can’t offload their social obligations on to the United States of America.there are so many positives that will come out of having this wall it’s just amazing he has to pull teeth to get the funding he needs to protect this nation but he’s doing it and the American people see it
That’s the way, we like it. uh huh uh huh. That’s the way, we like it!
Build on!