House Allocates $1.6 Billion for Border Wall Today

[JGalt]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

 

[Tank]

 

[yiostheoy]

Yay !!

Another (maybe the first) Trump promise kept !!!

 

[Moonglow]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

I noticed it's not in Peso dollars..Must be in American dollars..

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

Yay !!

Another (maybe the first) Trump promise kept !!!

Have you been living under a rock or listening to CNN?

 

[BlackFlag]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

 

[Stratford57]

Yay !!

Another (maybe the first) Trump promise kept !!!

If Deep State (including all Dems and unfortunately some Republicans as well) didn't stick Trump's wheels 24/7, he would have accomplished a lot more by now.

The intelligence community does not want Donald Trump to succeed, former Pentagon official Michael Maloof says. Ray McGovern, a former CIA officer, joins the conversation.

Michael Maloof: President Trump rightfully wants to move ahead. He has an agenda; he wants to get something done. He wants to show accomplishment. What’s happening – all the opposition that is biting at him constantly is inside the Beltway, with efforts by Democrats, mainstream media, the Deep State, or the intelligence community, because they do not want this President to succeed.
Anti-Russia narrative will continue because ‘everyone is afraid of the Deep State’

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

I noticed it's not in Peso dollars..Must be in American dollars..

Have you been to Mehico recently?
It's no longer the cheap vacation destiny.
Hell,when the wife and I first went to Negril beer was fifty cents and two lobsters was five bucks.

 

[JGalt]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

Doesn't matter who pays for it, I just want it built.

Maybe we could cut social services to pay for it

 

[BlackFlag]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

Doesn't matter who pays for it, I just want it built.

Maybe we could cut social services to pay for it

It'll take a lot more than cutting social services to build it. Your big gubmint will have to steal people's land, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and invent walls that can survive impossible terrain for wall building. And if built (which it won't be), it will probably be torn down immediately by the next administration. Or at least neglected into irrelevance.

 

[JGalt]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

Doesn't matter who pays for it, I just want it built.

Maybe we could cut social services to pay for it

It'll take a lot more than cutting social services to build it. Your big gubmint will have to steal people's land, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and invent walls that can survive impossible terrain for wall building. And if built (which it won't be), it will probably be torn down immediately by the next administration. Or at least neglected into irrelevance.

What?? Why would Trump tear down his own wall during his second term?

That's just plain bizarre.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

The Repubs plan to starve the elderly, children, babies, veterans, handicapped and as the cheeto said, he will just raise taxes on the working class. But hey, he lied about Mexico paying so maybe he was lying about this too?

Stupid.
Stupid.
Stupid.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Didn't reports suggest that it costs $150B a year to house and pay for illegal immigration?

This wall sounds like a hell of a deal if true.

Update: A quick link I googled

The Cost of a Border Wall vs. the Cost of Illegal Immigration

The Cost of a Border Wall vs. the Cost of Illegal Immigration

The findings of this analysis show that if a border wall stopped a small fraction of the illegal immigrants who are expected to come in the next decade, the fiscal savings from having fewer illegal immigrants in the country would be sufficient to cover the costs of the wall. This analysis takes the likely education level of illegal border-crossers and applies fiscal estimates developed by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (NAS) for immigrants by education level. NAS calculates the future fiscal balance immigrants create — taxes paid minus costs. NAS reports fiscal balances as "net present values", which places a lower value on future expenditures than on current expenditures.

Based on the NAS data, illegal border-crossers create an average fiscal burden of approximately $74,722 during their lifetimes, excluding any costs for their U.S.-born children. If a border wall stopped between 160,000 and 200,000 illegal crossers — 9 to 12 percent of those expected to successfully cross in the next decade — the fiscal savings would equal the $12 to $15 billion cost of the wall.1

Among the findings:

• There is agreement among researchers that illegal immigrants overwhelmingly have modest levels of education — most have not completed high school or have only a high school education.
• There is also agreement that immigrants who come to America with modest levels of education create significantly more in costs for government than they pay in taxes.
• A recent NAS study estimated the lifetime fiscal impact (taxes paid minus services used) of immigrants by education. Averaging the cost estimates from that study and combining them with the education levels of illegal border-crossers shows a net fiscal drain of $74,722 per illegal crosser.2
• The above figures are only for the original illegal immigrants and do not include any costs for their U.S.-born descendants. If we use the NAS projections that include the descendants, the fiscal drain for border-crossers grows to $94,391 each.
• If a border wall prevented 160,000 to 200,000 illegal crossings (excluding descendants) in the next 10 years it would be enough to pay for the estimated $12 to $15 billion costs of the wall.
• Newly released research by the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) done for the Department of Homeland Security indicates that 170,000 illegal immigrants crossed the border successfully without going through a port of entry in 2015.3While a significant decline in crossings from a decade ago, it still means that there may be 1.7 million successful crossings in the next decade. If a wall stopped just 9 to 12 percent of these crossings it would pay for itself.
• If a wall stopped half of those expected to successfully enter illegally without going through a port of entry at the southern border over the next 10 years, it would save taxpayers nearly $64 billion — several times the wall's cost.

 

[JGalt]

The Repubs plan to starve the elderly, children, babies, veterans, handicapped and as the cheeto said, he will just raise taxes on the working class. But hey, he lied about Mexico paying so maybe he was lying about this too?

Stupid.
Stupid.
Stupid.

Can we just start with the illegals, the progressives, and the liberals, and work our way up to the elderly, children, babies, veterans, handicapped?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

Doesn't matter who pays for it, I just want it built.

Maybe we could cut social services to pay for it

It'll take a lot more than cutting social services to build it. Your big gubmint will have to steal people's land, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and invent walls that can survive impossible terrain for wall building. And if built (which it won't be), it will probably be torn down immediately by the next administration. Or at least neglected into irrelevance.

IMO, every one of the RWNJs here knows this wall is boondoggle that will never be finished, never even slow down anyone wanting to cross it and will cost us billions more than trumpery said. And they know THEY will be the ones paying for it.

They don't care.

 

[BlackFlag]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

Doesn't matter who pays for it, I just want it built.

Maybe we could cut social services to pay for it

It'll take a lot more than cutting social services to build it. Your big gubmint will have to steal people's land, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and invent walls that can survive impossible terrain for wall building. And if built (which it won't be), it will probably be torn down immediately by the next administration. Or at least neglected into irrelevance.

What?? Why would Trump tear down his own wall during his second term?

That's just plain bizarre.

Trump should consider himself lucky if he finishes his 1st term.

 

[sealybobo]

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

They cut money that was going toward cleaning up the great lakes to come up with the money.

What a waste. But hey, you guys won so spend on whatever you want. Watch the debt.

What companies will get the contracts? Trump wall builders?

 

[depotoo]

Careful what you wish for. Pence, then Hatch...

BUT you also forget Clinton was impeached, yet served out his term.

While the whole country was distracted by Trump Jr's being a "KBG agent", look what happened: The money has actually been allocated! ICE also got a $620 million bump up.

MAGA Biatches!!

Bill allocates $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

"The House Appropriations Committee on Tuesday released a bill allocating $1.6 billion to begin construction of a physical barrier along the U.S. border with Mexico, one of President Trump’s central campaign promises."

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

Doesn't matter who pays for it, I just want it built.

Maybe we could cut social services to pay for it

It'll take a lot more than cutting social services to build it. Your big gubmint will have to steal people's land, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and invent walls that can survive impossible terrain for wall building. And if built (which it won't be), it will probably be torn down immediately by the next administration. Or at least neglected into irrelevance.

What?? Why would Trump tear down his own wall during his second term?

That's just plain bizarre.

Trump should consider himself lucky if he finishes his 1st term.

 

[BlackFlag]

Careful what you wish for. Pence, then Hatch...

BUT you also forget Clinton was impeached, yet served out his term.

Who did Mexico make the check out to?

Doesn't matter who pays for it, I just want it built.

Maybe we could cut social services to pay for it

It'll take a lot more than cutting social services to build it. Your big gubmint will have to steal people's land, waste billions of taxpayer dollars, and invent walls that can survive impossible terrain for wall building. And if built (which it won't be), it will probably be torn down immediately by the next administration. Or at least neglected into irrelevance.

What?? Why would Trump tear down his own wall during his second term?

That's just plain bizarre.

Trump should consider himself lucky if he finishes his 1st term.

True. Pence and Hatch are feeble cowards.

 

[Lewdog]

Uh... $1.6 Billion isn't going to build the border wall. The estimates to do so are over $20 Billion. $1.6 Billion might be enough to paint the thing we have up now.