Posted on 04/17/2026 12:12:55 PM PDT by backpacker_c
Join RSBN for full coverage of President Trump’s “Build the Red Wall” rally with Turning Point USA, as grassroots supporters gather to energize voter turnout.
The pre-program will feature speeches from Congressman Andy Biggs and Erika Kirk, followed by a keynote address from President Trump.
RSBN will be LIVE with crowd interviews and full-day coverage starting at 11 AM EDT for this must-watch event. The pre-program begins at 3 PM EDT, with President Trump scheduled to deliver remarks at 5 PM EDT.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0umPScX1lw
pre-Trump events starting now with invocation
Speaking of walls...how’s the Southern Border Wall coming along?
DHS, CBP award $4.5B in new contracts under OBBB for Smart Wall construction along southwest border
WASHINGTON — The Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Customs and Border Protection announced today 10 new construction contracts totaling approximately $4.5 billion were awarded in September 2025, which will add hundreds of miles of Smart Wall along the southwest border.
The Smart Wall is a border security system that combines steel barriers, waterborne barriers, patrol roads, lights, cameras, and advanced detection technology to give Border Patrol agents the best tools in the world to stop illegal traffic. In total, these projects will add 230 miles of Smart Wall and nearly 400 miles of new technology. The technology additions will further secure existing wall in areas where the Biden Administration policies cancelled contracts to do so.
These 10 contracts, which were awarded Sept. 15-30, are the very first to be funded by President Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill and also include minimal prior year funding from Fiscal Year 2021 wall appropriations, funding which was on hold during the Biden Administration.
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I oppose depending on 'smart wall' tech, because the wall still needs a physical border and people to catch the invaders, and they tried to build a tech border a while back and it cost lots of money and never worked
US ends "virtual fence" project on Mexican border
WASHINGTON, Jan 14 (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's administration on Friday canceled the troubled "virtual fence" project meant to better guard stretches of the vast U.S. border with Mexico and will replace it with other security measures.
The project, begun in 2006 and run by Boeing Co , has cost about $1 billion and was designed to pull together video cameras, radar, sensors and other technologies to catch illegal immigrants and smugglers trying to cross the porous border.
50 miles completed. $46B allocated (of which about $30B could be withheld and allocated to other projects by future congresses or administrations)
....so basically not great.
In the past few months we have spent vastly more money sending warships to the middle east and weapons to Ukraine.
We have been abandoned.
If the illegals aren’t coming anyway it isn’t a priority. From what I’ve read nearly 5 million have gone back since 2024.
1. Only 1.5 million have been deported.
2. After Trump, no guarantee there won’t be another rush to the border by illegal animals
Were the budgets in 2025 and 2026 bigger or smaller than Biden’s last budget?
Did all of those DOGE findings end up in budget savings or was it all kabuki theater?
Did they do mass deportations or did they do just about as many as Obama did in a year?
Did they release all of the Epstein/JFK files or did they continue to hide them and censor them?
Did they end the massacre in Gaza or the Ukraine war or did they allow them to continue and add wars in Lebanon and Iran?
Did they audit the Fed?
Did they audit Fort Knox?
Did they throw anyone in jail for spying on Trump in 2016?
Did they throw anyone in jail for weaponizing the justice system against Patriots from 2020 to 2024?
Did they throw anyone in jail for creating the Covid virus, lying about it, lying about the vaccine and forcing people to take it?
Did they throw anyone in jail for hiding and lying about the Biden laptop?
Did they throw anyone in jail for stealing the 2020 election?
We have been abandoned.
Only big tech oligarchs and Israel get anything from this administration. I guess you get what you pay for.
Where did you read that?
Katherine Limbaugh is giving a speach!
Katherine told the story about how Rush had announced his cancer diagnosis.
She and Rush had flown in and just landed for a scheduled surgery when Trump called and asked what they were doing.
Trump said “why don’t you come to the capitol that night”?
and convinced Rush, who Katherine says only had his t-shirt for clothing, to go to the capitol, where he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Katherine says Trump continued to call Trump, just to see how he was doing, after that.
Erika Kirk on stage now
Trump coming on stage now
CSPAN right now...MAGA!
I don’t remember. It was an estimate based on falling rental prices.
I was never good at keeping citations.
Trump rally mode is his best mode!
😀
He is up to speed!
Exactly so.
Dirty nitzy
BS lies.
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