Posted on 03/24/2018 5:00:01 PM PDT by MNDude
President Trump said Friday that construction of his promised border wall would start "immediately" after signing the omnibus spending bill, which included $1.6 billion in funding for the wall.
"We're going to be starting work literally on Monday," Trump said during an event Friday at the White House. "We have a lot of money coming to the border."
Trump had threatened earlier Friday to veto the spending bill Congress passed on Thursday because it did not include sufficient funding for the wall and because it omitted expiring protections for young, undocumented immigrants.
I have seen indications that Trump has been pushing the Administration to get a big plan going for border barriers, all along. He is a boss by nature - he wants to see results from subordinates, or they get fired, on the spot.
I can’t believe that they don’t have primary, secondary and tertiary plans to make progress.
General Kelly, as Chief of Staff, is seen by President Trump’s side almost all the time. As a Four Star General, planning and execution are ingrained deeply into his bones. He was Trump’s first Secretary of Homeland Security, charged with building the wall. If Trump did not think he was handling it well, he would not have been promoted to Chief of Staff. General Kelly is now a specialist in the details of the wall , and is also a long time expert in how the Military spending works.
Let’s not forget, that as a Four Star, General Kelly commanded SOUTHCOM, which oversees Latin America, Southern Border Security, and JTF-B, the Counter-Narcotics effort on the Southern Border. These would be natural areas within DoD to fund construction of border barrier, if the Military budget was going to be used. General Kelly probably knows all the folks in SOUTHCOM who might be involved in wall building by their first names, and the last four digits of their Social Security numbers.
After Kelly took Homeland Security and had some time to get briefed, he estimated two years of construction to get a reasonably effective border barrier up (I assume that was based on unconstrained funding).
With all the time they have had to plan and prepare, the continued high level emphasis, and the quality of the people leading the effort; money that is added now truly shovel-ready. I expect that vendors will be notified this week, probably Monday, of new solicitations being released for border barrier (the good stuff). It is just a question of how much. A few billion extra from DoD’s budget, and we would be off to the races. Really, 5 billion a year for two years would basically do the job.
McConnell is conundrum wrapped in an enigma
His action are classic bipolar behavior
Excellent points. THanQ
I’d say he is a tur* wrapped in a Depend.
The out of town robbers don’t know the difference.
Decades a go one of my cousins was a highway patrol officer in another big state. They were having some terrible wrecks at specific spots in specific roads.
He came up with the concept of towing old HP vehicles and parking them behind some bushes and putting a manikin behind the wheel in the parked car.
That cut the accident rates down. About 2-3 times a week, they would have a real trooper and a real HP car to hand out tickets.
He won an award for his idea.
Fair question, I did not explain what I meant in my previous post.
By signing the bill, Trump is now perceived to agree with the bill (and its spending priorities), and makes himself look foolish in light of his post about a veto threat just prior to signing it.
He should have vetoed the bill and immediately go on the offensive by blaming the congress for endangering the troops, then demand for a clean spending bill just for the military, while the other points such as eliminating funding for Planned Parenthood, fulling funding the border wall, etc get worked out.
In all likelihood, the congress would have overridden his veto anyway, but it would have passed without Trump's approval, thus getting Trump off the hook for the bill.
But unfortunately, Trump signed it, and thus helped to curtail building the wall, and fully fund Planned Parenthood among other things, when he did have viable alternatives to doing this.
Amen! Great video.....
“Satellites”
You mean the “lasers”
—Dr. Evil
You sound like one of those guys that gives up in the third quarter.
We used to love playin’ teams like that .. good for the season stats.
We call them the Cleveland Browns....DILLY DILLY !!!!
But the monstrous military spending authorization is for the commander-in-chief to spend as he sees fit.
Well...if you can’t go through the front door, use the back one.
Dilly Dilly.
Yup! If indeed the Wall gets billed, who got rolled, Trump or the Elite congress critters in DC?
What I hoped the president would do was veto the Omnibus, shut the government down for several days and force Congress to send him the normal, traditional 12 Appropriations Bills which would have meant a separate Bill for National Defense. That would have moved him as close to a line-item veto as he could get.
That money .... As in the 1.6 Billion allocation.
This executive order is NOT a presidential declaration of a state of emergency. Sorry...nice try.
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There is no elected politician more legal than the president.
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NONE are above the Law.
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None of the others won nationwide election. When American voters elect a president, they are electing THE COMMANDER-IN_CHIEF as well. Do you really want 535 congress critters to micro-manage defense budget?
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Outside of CiC, there is very little, Constitutionally, on the Presidential duties list...That was when there was still a Republic.
Regardless, maybe I missed it, but each does already. With the PORK in each district they so vehemently fight for.
The free-for-all when/if a base closure is announced. Manuf., parts, logistics, etc. All micro-managed by 535 fiefdoms.
Nothing illegal about building a wall to defend the country. No more illegal than when president Reagan used military funds to invade Grenada.
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