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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Because the Dem party is more likely to give them what they want -- welfare freebies. And sanctuary in their protected cities.
At this point I don't care. Just build the wall!
keep enough caravaners on the south side of the border, they might just build it for us.
I think you missed the point..
Not only do many of us want a wall..
we want less government spending.
eventually the governments credit card is going to come up declined.
Trump is CIC. He could direct the army to build the wall for defense and use their 750 billion dollar budget.
And make the libtards heads explode in the process.
“If Trump settles on a mere $5Billion in exchange for keeping the corrupt Fed Gov open IMHO this will be his only term.”
I agree. All the wimpy surrender monkeys and Mammon-worshipping fake conservatives will sit home and allow the leftists to take over.
It’s completely logical - sacrifice your fortune, your community, your home and your children to leftists because Trump only settled for $5 billion for a border wall.
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