Posted on 05/04/2021 10:35:11 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Pentagon is to cancel all US-Mexico border wall construction projects paid for using military funds
Former President Donald Trump ordered the diversion of billions of dollars in Pentagon money to pay for the barrier after being denied funding by Congress
President Joe Biden announced a halt to border wall construction after taking office in January
Trump launched his presidential campaign in 2015 with a pledge to build a wall along the US-Mexico border and to make Mexico pay for it
Mexico refused and so did the House of Representatives after Democrats took control in 2018
Trump ultimately bypassed Congress by dipping directly into Pentagon coffers, forcing the Defense Department to allocate billions of dollars for the project
President Biden's cancellation comes into effect as over 172,000 migrants were arrested in March - the highest figure in 20 years
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Pentagon officials are canceling construction of Donald Trump's border wall with funds the ex-president diverted form the military and diverting an unspent $14 billion back to the Department of Justice.
A spokesman said Friday: 'Border wall construction under the previous administration tied up more than $14 billion in taxpayer funds, shortchanged our military, and diverted attention away from genuine security challenges, like human traffickers. Rushed and haphazard wall construction also resulted in serious life, safety, and environmental issues,' the official said.
Trump declared a national emergency in 2019 in an effort to redirect funding to build a wall along the U.S. southern border.
Biden's cancellation of his flagship project came weeks after the US announced it had arrested more migrants who crossed the southern border than in any month since 2001. More than 172,000 people were detained after crossing into the country from Mexico during March.
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The Pentagon brass are traitors - fools. They are favoring the WH effort to invade the country with illegal aliens over the well-being and security of the nation. Shame! Shame!
I became politically aware when obama refused to provide his bona fidas .My statement here is somewhat general so please bear with it. Pres Trump re-organizeed the criteria for immigration, built the wall as far as it could go under his administration, and protected our borders among other things.Now the usurper biden comes along changes ALL of it, including things in diff sectors .
So you’ ve got one coming and the other going.
With this admin and its radicalness I truly believe it is here to destabilize every nook & cranny of american life.
Who in the world wants this constant tug of war, the ideological push and pull of two separate parties? imho it creates chaos . Should I dare suggest this country create legitimate parties to counter these democrats and republicans?
imho this country cannot survive in this morass of destabilization and thinking of obamas saying about bitter clingers? well, thats all I have at the moment as our Constitution being shredded daily.
I have lost faith in “ government”.
So count me out.
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They want chaos, infiltration and terrorism here.
It’s good for budget increases...................
“Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist.”
― George Orwell, 1984
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The work should have been paid for in advance.
Who are they? Don’t they have names? We have a right to know exactly who the individuals are who are doing these things. The people have a right to this information. If these generals have the crust to do this, then they ought to have the balls to answer to the people in public, before the cameras. They’re not afraid to show their faces, are they?
I suggest you stay and fight, like the rest of us are doing.
Russia (the Soviet Union) knew this was the way to overtake the US. China simply accelerated the process, in combination with the traitors in our government and populace.
Agree! However, when one party does nothing to counter attempts to redirect funds, and generally, hold the “opposing” party to the letter of the law, it is imminently over! It seems that we are on the edge of destruction with every election. But NOW, WE REALLY ARE!
They are just like all other government bureaucrats.
They have a systems sense and know which way the winds are blowing.
Every government department and agency is a political tool, all of them, no exception.
The DoD is one of the better ones because at least the brass has to earn their right (experience, professional development, degrees...) to become top tier managers although their civilian leadership is ever much as bad... Whereas in some other government agencies you get some real yokels in charge, i.e. State Department and many of the Ambassadors...
Looks like the Pentagon believes Invasion is a Civil Right!
why aren’t the Repubs suing for every little thing ?
RATs did it and won when Pres. Trump tried to use an E.O. to cancel an unconstitutional Pres. Obama DACA
E.O.
SCOTUS ruling emphasized that the administration failed to provide an adequate reason to justify ending the DACA program.
Just shoot me...
I of course have no idea how the contracts were written but I do know this. If Trump had canceled contracts signed by Obozo, the courts would be deluged with lawsuits.
The Elite (R) so-called leadership wants everything back like it was before Trump..................
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