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    Steve King: Border wall planning to start soon

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    SIOUX CITY | Iowa 4th District U.S. Rep. Steve King said planning for a border wall at the Mexican border, which he has long sought to slow illegal immigration, will start by this fall.

    In an interview with the Journal, the Republican from Kiron said construction of the wall won't begin that soon, but said contracts to evaluate wall prototypes will be set by September, before the new fiscal year begins Oct. 1. King also again contended money could be taken away from a federal government program, designed to help feed poor people, to pay for the wall, since he said too many people are obese.

    "I know people are going to attack me, but you've got to stop and think," King said, about which government programs aren't working and should be reduced, in order to pay for what he said are needed projects such as the border wall.

    House Republicans are moving next week to fund President Trump's $1.6 billion request to begin construction of his oft-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. House aides on Tuesday said GOP leaders have decided to attach the money — to build 74 miles of fencing and levee wall in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and near San Diego — to a spending bill for the Defense Department and a handful of other agencies like the Department of Veterans Affairs.

    Some estimates for the wall run around $20 billion, which Democrats cite as an indefensible federal expense. Trump has promised that Mexico would pay for the wall but hasn't come up with a plan to force it to actually do so.

    "Less than $10 billion will build all the wall we need...I can fund it out of this budget in this year," King said.

    He said lessened crime will follow once the wall goes up, so some law enforcement and and social agency costs would drop. King would not specify which federal government agencies would have lessened spending as a result of such a crime rate drop.

    "That really doesn't matter. It is just finding it and doing it," the congressman said.

    King then moved to describe his plan to divert money from Planned Parenthood and the federal food stamps program, or Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, as first reported last week on CNN. King told the Journal there was an initial need to create the food stamps program to address malnutrition.

    "Now, 40 percent of the people that are receiving EBT cards (food stamp method of payment) are obese. So what message does it send, to compound a problem that was created by that? Can't we adjust that program causes would be, put it into the wall," King said.

    In a prior Journal interview in March, King said he has sent federal authorities plans to build a Mexican border wall for far less than the estimated $21 billion cost, or roughly $10 billion.

    King operated an earth moving contracting company in western Iowa for nearly three decades. At a meeting in early 2017, King presented his plans to Gen. John Kelly, Trump's secretary of Homeland Security.

    "This is an investment that will give us a return for 100 years," King said this week.

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    How about cut ALL foreign aid...stop giving other countries OUR money! It is OUR money...not yours to give.

    We want that wall and we want it now to be completed by New Year's Eve!!!
    ILLEGAL ALIENS HAVE "BROKEN" OUR IMMIGRATION SYSTEM

    DO NOT REWARD THEM - DEPORT THEM ALL

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