Posted on 12/01/2018 9:43:03 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
(CNSNews.com) - President Donald Trump’s $5 billion request for funds to use building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border equals 0.11 percent of the estimated $4.5 trillion the federal government is expected to spend this fiscal year.
According to the Monthly Treasury Statement for October, the Office of Management and Budget has estimated that the federal government will spend a total of $4,509,641,000,000 in fiscal 2019, which started on Oct. 1.
President Trump is now asking Congress to approve $5 billion in the fiscal 2019 Department of Homeland Security appropriation to fund border wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border.
That $5,000,000,000 would equal 0.11 percent of the anticipated total federal spending of $4,509,641,000,000.
To put the president’s border wall request in perspective, the federal government spent $5.587 billion in the month of October alone for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, AKA food stamps. Thus, funding food stamps for just the first month of fiscal 2019 cost more than Trump’s entire fiscal 2019 request for border wall funding.
Over all of fiscal 2018, the federal government spent $68,493,00,000 on food stamps, according to the Monthly Treasury Statement. Thus, the most recent full year of the food stamp program cost about 13.7 times as much as Trump’s border wall request.
The Homeland Security Appropriation bill that the House Appropriations Committee approved in July included $5,000,000,000 for the border wall.
“The bill includes $5,000,000,000 for new border technology and the construction of over $200 miles of new barriers to fill critical gaps along our Southwest border,” says the committee’s report on the bill.
The version of the Homeland Security Appropriation approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee, however, says that only “$1,600,000,000 shall be available for approximately 65 miles of pedestrian fencing along the southwest border in the Rio Grande Valley Sector.”
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Too many times I think that says cBs and I almost have a heart attack.
Only to look twice and realize nothing’s changed :)
It is also about 1% of what the illegals in this country will cost us this year—let alone all the future bills for them and their families. Or the cost of what they vote in as destructive government policies.
Politicians that don’t want the wall are probably getting money from drug lords.
“...It is also about 1% of what the illegals in this country will cost us this year—let alone all the future bills for them and their families. Or the cost of what they vote in as destructive government policies....”
Yes, and the cost of the wall is CHUMP CHANGE compared to what it will eventually save the taxpayers of THIS COUNTRY both in money and integrity of the nation.
“A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking real money.”
- Senator Everitt M. Dirksen
How much do the American taxpayers spend on protecting other countries borders??
If Trump settles on a mere $5Billion in exchange for keeping the corrupt Fed Gov open IMHO this will be his only term.
Sounds like a good investment.
Probably—such as the CIA. But also we know some is simply from cheap labor hirers.
Betrayers to our country all.
Is Mexico going to reimbursement us?
It’s not about the money, nor has it ever been. It’s about the fact that ALL Democrat and GOPe pols have long done everything in their power to keep the Cheap Labor Express a-rollin’.
Obama wasted/threw away hundreds of billions on Green Jobs
“It’s about the fact that ALL Democrat and GOPe pols have long done everything in their power to keep the Cheap Labor Express a-rollin’.”...…….
While I don’t disagree with the above comment, why then do the “free loaders” tend to vote DEMODUMMIE?
Trump needs to build that wall high and deep above and under the ground!
And a small percentage of the costs of illegal immigrants. Not only financially, but socially.
” Sounds like a good investment”
I agree, and let me add...….-— It’s a lot better than the
305 Billion Taxpayer Dollars over 5 years, - that Congress gave Obumbles Infrastructure bill.
2/3 of the federal govt is funded thru 2019 anyway, this is a negotiation that includes the DHS budget which is not. Unrelated to reelection.
The Senate Republicans are talking about $5 billion - over two years. So it would only be 0.055% of Federal Spending annually.
The second year will of course never materialize, after the Dems take the House of Representatives.
Negotiations are still underway, so we must reserve our full disappointment until the final results are signed - and pray for the best.
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