Wouldn’t it be a great photo op to have an event with the President and Don, Jr., climbing up on a big ol’ US built, giant yellow Caterpillar bulldozer at the border and moving some earth...
Finally we’re going to PROTECT OUR BORDERS... not just South Korea, or Kuwait’s or Germany’s or the EU’s or or or... FINALLY we can protect our own border.
Winning! More please.
JoMa
Is there a percent-o-meter we can view like United Way has to show how much of the necessary funds have been spent as the $$ are spent?
The wall is being built, Trump is victorious, and leftist heads are splitting open and nothing but air is coming out.
Winning!
Great news bump!
It is already too late , 50% of our population is now Mexican
Forced reciprocity would turn the tables right around and would be a virtual takeover of mexico like they did to us
REPRICOCITY NOW or close the border until Mexico stops invading
Lots of winning today.
GET THAT WALL BUILT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This first $1 billion was from the easiest pot of money to tap into - nobody’s ox was gored.
The Pentagon failed to meet its recruiting goals for the year, so the extra pay budgeted for new recruits that did not show up, was just left over. So nobody is having any money taken from their pet project.
This is the Pentagon’s equivalent of digging loose change from between the cushions of the couch.
Once they start taking the money from specific Military Construction projects (which required the Emergency Declaration), there will likely be much louder squealing.
I guess that any method used this year to re-program funds for the border wall, will likely be dis-allowed in next year’s appropriation (likely the authority to re=program at all). So they will likely have to get all they can done and spent before the end of this Fiscal Year (30 September).
To meet that deadline would require a flurry of contract awards, that will dwarf what we have seen so far in the wall building program. We could potentially see the first new awards as early as next month if they had some task orders all ready pre-solicited, but more likely May and June will see awards starting to drop, and continuing through Summer.
Usually ground breaking is about 10 weeks after award, so as we get toward the end of the year, more and more crews will be working simultaneously.
Its going to be fun.
I assume this is the response of the Congressional committee to this same appropriation plan: