Posted on 08/27/2024 10:58:42 AM PDT by Red Badger
Vice President Kamala Harris has reversed her position on spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a wall along the southern border, Axios reported Tuesday.
Harris is now in favor of building a wall after being attacked repeatedly by former President Donald Trump for presiding over an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration to the U.S. as the Biden administration’s unofficial “border czar,” according to Axios. Prior to her second run for the presidency, Harris had called the border wall “un-American,” a “stupid waste of money” and Trump’s “medieval vanity project.”
Harris now backs the bipartisan border bill proposed in February, which would require hundreds of millions of unspent public dollars to be spent on further construction of a border wall, according to Axios. The office of Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, one of the lawmakers who negotiated the bill, projected that the bill would spend $650 million on wall construction, a far cry from the $18 billion that Trump wanted for the border wall in 2018. (RELATED: Corporate Media Goes Into Overdrive To Memory-Hole Kamala’s Border Record)
The flip-flop on the border is the latest instance of Harris and her team distancing the vice president from left-wing positions she previously endorsed, such as banning fracking and supporting a Medicare-for-All health care system. The Harris campaign has made an effort to present Harris as tough-on-crime and somewhat hawkish on the border in recent weeks, with one advertisement released earlier in August depicting images of Trump’s border wall while a narrator speaks about her record as a “border-state prosecutor.”
The Harris campaign has noted that the failed border bill — which would have permitted an average of 5,000 migrants per day to cross the border — does not include any new money for building a wall and contains other provisions, such as additional money to pay for asylum attorneys and judges, according to Axios.
“Kamala’s RECORD proves she is pro-open border. She called the wall ‘un-American,’ a ‘waste of taxpayer money,’ ‘medieval,’ and said it isn’t going to ‘stop’ illegal immigration,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation. “As a senator, Kamala tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall. As Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall. Kamala’s ACTIONS speak much louder than the WORDS of the anonymous staff she is cowering behind.”
The Biden-Harris administration has overseen a crisis at the border that started after the administration walked back several key policies that the Trump administration instituted. Since 2021, there have been at least 6.7 million encounters with migrants at the southern border and 8 million encounters nationwide, according to the House Committee on Oversight and Accountability and the House Committee on Homeland Security.
The Harris campaign did not respond immediately to a request for comment.
This woman doesn’t really believe in anything at all.
“Now She Supports It”
No.....no she doesn’t
‘Flip-Flop’ must be the Newspeak WORD FOR ‘LYING YOUR ASS OFF’............
Is the liberal base going to let her get away with these flip-flops?
Maybe poll testing shows they don’t care what she says at all - they just want to beat Trump.
“border-state prosecutor,” which state hands out (at taxpayer expense) all sorts of freebies to the invaders.
Its like the idiot who said after looking up at the military fly by at Bill Clinton’s inauguration, “At first I was angry (at the fly-by), but then I realized those are OUR planes now.”
Kamala: “Its OUR wall now, so its a good wall. Trumps wall BAD, my wall GOOD.”
And no, she doesn’t actually mean it.
BINGO!..............
Is it a wall to keep people in?
Her constant cackling is that of a 4 year old at Christmas. And that’s what this whole thing is to her. Christmas morning is every morning.
Maybe poll testing shows they don’t care what she says at all - they just want to beat Trump.
Yes and yes.
Now She Supports It.
Except for the last 3.5 years now she says anything to get a vote how democrat of her.
However the wind blows.
Come on K. quit blowing with wind. Show us what you got.
Wait, we already know that.
What color stickie did you pick for your flip-flop notes today?
That was the late Ron Silver said that.
His attitude changed 180° on 9-11...............
Her purpose is winning the election and she'll do unstable things to accomplish that.
Actually, it appears kamalala believes that she is smart.
If she really believed it she wouldn’t be so terrified of interviews and debates.
The RATs really do believe that the vast majority of Americans are way below average.
Half of them are..............
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