Posted on 02/16/2020 8:38:38 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — On the eve of the New Hampshire primary, President Donald Trump told a rally that people who are in the United States illegally are paying for his Mexico border wall. It was the latest iteration of his effort to convince the public that Mexico is covering the cost, just as he promised throughout his 2016 campaign and since.
Evidence to the contrary came three days later. The Pentagon announced it is taking $3.8 billion approved by Congress for fighter aircraft, ships and other military programs and using the money to pay for the wall. The Defense Department took a similar step last year and may yet again. U.S. taxpayers are paying for the wall, not Mexico, as has been the case from the start.
Trump spread a variety of distortions at the rally, and still more in other venues during a week that came to be dominated by machinations involving the Justice Department. The release of his proposed budget prompted Democrats to wrongly accuse him of undermining Medicare.
The week in review:
THE WALL
TRUMP: “You do know who’s paying for the wall, don’t you? Redemption from illegal aliens that are coming. The redemption money is paying for the wall.” — New Hampshire rally Monday.
THE FACTS: To date, the money is coming from the U.S. treasury, meaning today’s taxpayers and the future ones who will inherit the federal debt. To the extent any people who came into the U.S. illegally are kicking in for the wall, it’s because they’re working and paying taxes like other workers.
“Redemption” payments don’t exist; Trump apparently meant to cite remittances. That refers to money that immigrants in the U.S. send to their countries of origin, often to family members. Trump has at various times talked about taxing or blocking such...
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I don't care how the ^%#@ he's paying for it.
He's keeping his promise to build it.
That's the ONLY thing that matters.
“Mexico will pay for the wall...”
Nope, Mexico IS the wall. Game over.
Lopez-Obrador and his administration have a bit more sense than I expected.
Mexico is a mess and probably always will be but I have to give them some limited respect for cooperating with Trump.
I don’t care..at some point they will pay for it.
Protecting our borders is far more national defense than sending out troops to defend borders for other countries all around the world.
This point needs to be relentlessly driven home. It will put the establishment on the defense because its true and their is no way to defend this policy.
Is it deplorable?
The idiots actually think we care who pays for it.
American Fact Check: “AP is beyond redemption for all the lies they tell”
If the worst you have is Mexico isn’t paying for it, as far as campaign promises not kept, you don’t get it. How many campaign promises has any former President not kept???
Trump derangement syndrome
I don't care who pays for it as long as it gets built!
Did breitbart.com ... become the front for fake news by AP or Drudge?
Thanks for posting this reality:
Nope, Mexico IS the wall. Game over.
Of course they will.
As someone earlier asked does it matter who paid for it? We're getting the wall, and lying about who footed the bill only makes the President look clueless.
Last time I tried to fact check AP, the system locked up on the word fact and shut down.
AP. Not worth reading!
I guess AP is claiming illegal immigrants pay more in taxes than they cost in hospital costs, education costs, welfare costs, ICE cost, criminal court costs and prison costs. Let them put some figures on that.
Here’s a figure they can’t dispute- illegals cost our country more than $600 BILLION DOLLARS Per Year, Every Year- Studies were done decades ago to try to determine how much illegals cost this country, with both direct costs, and incidental costs- their estimate back then was between $400 and $600 billion per year-it’s likely more than $1 Trillion today-
There is NO WAY Illegals pay that much in taxes every year-
If we spent a mere $25 Billion dollars for a wall, then spent a billion or so per year maintaining it, and spent a few billion deporting illegals out of this country (Liberals scream it would be ‘too expensive to deport them”)- We still be saving nearly $1 TRILLION Dollars per year, every single year
Mexico has been far more helpful to the US than the dems have. I don’t think anyone cares if the US has to spend money to build the wall.
Build the wall and in ten years it will pay for itself.
The wall more than pays for itself many times overin free benefits not given to illegals,jail, prison and legal costs of illegals, the loss to victims, the stopping of many illegal drugs and their vast damages and costs to society, etc., etc., etc.
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