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House Agrees To $1.6 Billion For Border Wall
dailycaller.com ^ | 9/14/17 | Robert

Posted on 09/14/2017 12:52:18 PM PDT by ColdOne

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To: central_va

All I know is that the only way 62 miles of border wall will cost $1 billion is if it is being built by New York City lawyers out of Porsches and Ferraris stacked on top of each other.


61 posted on 09/14/2017 1:31:17 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: NorthMountain
Trumpbots

Just blew in from DU, did ya?

62 posted on 09/14/2017 1:32:15 PM PDT by Windflier (Pitchforks and torches ripen on the vine. Left too long, they become black rifles.)
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To: FreeReign

I don’t think he wants DACA. If he did, why did he end the program as it was running? It is a bargaining chip.


63 posted on 09/14/2017 1:33:02 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: Tenacious 1
The wall will cost about $12 billion. $1.6 billion is a small percentage of that.

Where are you getting this number, please?

From Trump:

64 posted on 09/14/2017 1:34:26 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: caligatrux
How many amigos and drug dealers from Mexico will that wall of yours stop?
I guess I could build a 2000 mile wall for $2 Billion too but then even a 2 year old would be able to jump over it.
65 posted on 09/14/2017 1:34:59 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: ColdOne

Is sequester gone for the military? Does this budget start building the Navy back to 355 ships as Trump pledged? This bill will be changed by the Senate and then there will be a conference committee from both houses to craft the final version. Then we will see what goes to Trump’s desk.


66 posted on 09/14/2017 1:36:04 PM PDT by Uncle Sam 911
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To: Windflier

GFY, ya putz.


67 posted on 09/14/2017 1:36:24 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: caligatrux
I don’t think he wants DACA. If he did, why did he end the program as it was running?

Because it wasn't a law. It was done unConstitutionally. It was an Obama EO.

68 posted on 09/14/2017 1:37:05 PM PDT by FreeReign
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To: central_va

Read post # 30.


69 posted on 09/14/2017 1:37:23 PM PDT by SmokingJoe
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To: FreeReign

Well if he was for DACA, he didn’t have to do anything with it at all. Even if the courts eventually struck it down, it was still Obama’s mess, not his.


70 posted on 09/14/2017 1:38:23 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: utahagen
.. NOT wishing him ill ..

I am - unapologetically !

71 posted on 09/14/2017 1:39:05 PM PDT by tomkat
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To: SmokingJoe

There is a significant difference between 62 miles of border wall for $1 billion and 2000 miles of border wall for $1 billion. And the way the article is written at least, it looks like the $1 billion is just for construction of the physical wall itself, not including any additional security measures, etc.


72 posted on 09/14/2017 1:41:35 PM PDT by caligatrux (Rage, rage against the dying of the light.)
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To: NorthMountain

Pfft, no. He’s caving left and right.

One day he was sending out tweets like fire, defending America, and Americans. The next day he stops tweeting, and he starts working with democrats.


73 posted on 09/14/2017 1:45:46 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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To: Jarhead9297

I have many concerns associated with the wall and our border security. If it saves 10 people from getting murdered, 10 women from being raped, 10 children from being sexually assulted, 10 homes for being burgled, 10 illegal children from being tossed onto the taxpayer’s backs, 10 neighborhoods from having to deal with more gang members and the other problems associated with illegal immigrants, it will have been worth it. And that’s just one year. The next, it still pays off.

With the wall we should be able to cut back on our border patrol. We should realize considerable savings there as well.

The point is, the wall will pay for itself in a number of ways.

It baffles me the number of people who don’t think an expenditure of this sort which would be 0.00119% of our budget over five years, or 0.00056% over ten years would be worth it.

Ending 1-2.5 million illegal aliens from entering our nation and staying each year is a better idea? Really?


74 posted on 09/14/2017 1:46:02 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (7.5 mos M/R joining dems to block Cons. agenda? No problem. Trump deal w/Dems, big problem! Ah NO!)
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To: ColdOne
will allocate $1.6 billion towards President Donald Trump’s border wall.

That is only enough money to fund further study.

75 posted on 09/14/2017 1:46:24 PM PDT by itsahoot (As long as there is money to be divided, there will be division.)
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To: Garth Tater

$658.1 billion for the Defense Dept? Sounds like a little spare change out of that account could build us a beautiful wall from coast to coast.
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Let the Seabees build it.....stat!


76 posted on 09/14/2017 1:47:18 PM PDT by Hogblog
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To: Lakewood

That’s what I thought too.

I wondered if loser Paul Ryan did this today because of Trumps beer fest with Chuck U and the old hag?


77 posted on 09/14/2017 1:47:42 PM PDT by speedracerx (The fate of our great nation lies in the hands of conservatives!)
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To: ColdOne

Also, the House passed this same bill back in July, it appears. And we celebrated then too.


78 posted on 09/14/2017 1:49:37 PM PDT by WVMnteer
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To: FreedomStar3028
< shrug >

I'm interested in results. Now we get to see what all that 38DD chess is good for.

79 posted on 09/14/2017 1:49:54 PM PDT by NorthMountain
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To: NorthMountain

The chess game is over. America and Trump lost. Obviously.


80 posted on 09/14/2017 1:50:52 PM PDT by FreedomStar3028 (Somebody has to step forward and do what is right because it is right, otherwise no one will follow.)
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