Posted on 11/14/2020 7:48:01 PM PST by 11th_VA
A proposed 2021 budget released by the U.S. Senate gives almost $2 billion toward the construction of the Trump administration’s border wall.
The move has angered environmental groups that are already entangled in legal battles against current wall spending.
Paulo Lopes, public lands policy specialist for the Center for Biological Diversity, said the amount proposed for 2021 is larger than wall budgets agreed upon in the past.
"Twenty-eighteen, 2019 and 2020 they’ve passed into law about $1.3, $1.4 billion. So this is definitely more than what Congress has agreed to in the past," he said...
The Trump administration marked the 400th mile of new wall in October and is barreling toward completing 450 miles by the end of 2020. Lopes said his organization want Congress to help fund borderland restoration efforts, not more wall.
"One would think that Senate Republicans would be a bit cognizant that over 5 million Americans voted in favor of a Democratic president and so you would be surprised that on President Trump’s way out the door they would keep funding his useless wall," Lopes said.
Joe Biden has pledged to immediately halt construction when he enters office next year, but has not said he would tear down what has already been build.
The president elect could also face legal challenges trying to sever existing building contracts.
Like last year, the U.S. House's 2021 proposed budget includes zero dollars for the wall and prohibits other funds from being allocated for that purpose. The two congressional bodies have until December to agree on either a short- or long-term funding package.
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Shut down the government until January 20....
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All well and good, but the House Controls the budget.
Where was this proposal in 2017 and 2018?
This and many other things just didn’t get done. Now here
we are.
Honestly, the way our side plays we don’t deserve to win.
If it weren’t for Trump we wouldn’t at all.
Trump has nothing to lose.
Joe Biden has pledged to immediately halt construction when he enters office next year, but has not said he would tear down what has already been build.
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No worries. Harris has 8 years to take it down.
Pelosi will be proposing another $50 billion to tear down the wall.
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