“Trump Got His Wish. Mexico Is Now the Wall,” Ramos wrote in the February 7 issue of the New York Times:
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It wasnt his wish. It was his PLAN.
Posted on 02/11/2020 9:00:19 AM PST by re_tail20
President Donald Trump’s budget request to Congress says the administration has enough cash to build 1,000 miles of border wall.
“With funding made available from 2017 to 2020, the Administration will build up to approximately 1,000 miles of border wall along the Southwest border,” said the summary of the budget request for 2021 that was sent to Congress Monday.
There is a delay between the arrival of funding and the completion of construction, so the administration is unlikely to reach 1,000 miles of wall for several years. The current schedule says roughly 500 miles will be completed by early 2021
The funding is being taken from the Department of Defense’s construction budget, which is allowed by various federal laws that grant some levels of emergency power to the president. In the last two years, Trump has switched $14 billion in funding, partly because the regular funding is still beset by Democratic opposition and GOP passivity.
To build 1,000 miles, Trump may need to switch additional funds during 2020 and 2021.
The budget request for 2021 seeks just $2 billion in regular funding at the Department of Homeland Security. But that low-ball request minimizes the chance of a government shutdown just before the election.
A second budget document says:
The FY 2021 President’s Budget enhances border security through investment in U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) staffing, infrastructure, and technology. Funding is provided for the following priorities:
Nearly $2.0 billion for construction of approximately 82 miles of new border wall system. Funding supports real estate and environmental planning, land acquisition, wall system design, construction, and construction oversight. Border wall system impedes illicit crossborder activity by providing law enforcement with an increased response time and greater opportunity for successful law enforcement resolution
Trump’s border wall, however, has proven less effective that the...
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How mean and petty of Democrats to not be on the American team for the wall. History will remember the BS the democrats put the country through on just about everything....for no real reason.
Let’s hope they don’t succeed in stealing the election in November because they said they would tear the wall down.
“Trump Got His Wish. Mexico Is Now the Wall,” Ramos wrote in the February 7 issue of the New York Times:
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It wasnt his wish. It was his PLAN.
Yeah, kinda like unbuilding and aircraft carrier.
Is there an election or something?
No one can agree on how much Wall has been built since Trump took office. I think it is around 100 miles.
However, all of it falls into two categories:
(1) Replacement Wall (or Fence) that was actually authorized in Obama’s last Budget.
(2) Replacement Wall (or Fence) that Trump was authorized to build by a federal court - with residual Pentagon funds.
How many miles of Wall have been built with specifically budgeted funds under Trump?
Zero.
I repeat:
IF Trump out out a call for volunteers with construction experience & provided the materials, the wall would be built & done in less than the rest of this year.
Give the volunteers a ‘base camp’ to park their RV’s, large military mess tents for meals 24/7, and let their wives help with the mess halls. Bring in a few Semi’s like Tide brings in to disaster zones for washing clothes.
NOT to take any money away from the construction companies now working on the wall-—but support for those companies.
IT CAN BE DONE.
“Democratic opposition and GOP passivity.”
Yep, that’s pretty much our Chamber of Corruption two party system.
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