Thread: Trump's border wall proposal is exactly what Ann Coulter pitched on Fox News Saturday

Congress's massive new spending bill completely whiffed on Trump's demands for 'the wall'


Bob Bryan

Mar. 22, 2018, 10:29 AM

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Kids peer through the US-Mexico border fence while standing on the Mexican side of the fenceMario Tama/Getty Images

• President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he "Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border."
• In reality, he didn't.
• The new omnibus funding bill includes no money for Trump's proposed wall.
• It does contain funding to build 47 miles of fencing similar to what exists now.
• Additionally, the bill would replace 45 miles of existing fencing.

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President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the administration secured a big win as part ofCongress' massive new funding bill: money to start building the wall along the US-Mexico border.

"Got $1.6 Billion to start Wall on Southern Border, rest will be forthcoming," Trump tweeted.
But in reality, there's no funding for the wall in the bill — at least not the kind that Trump described during his campaign.

The massive $1.3 trillion omnibus bill does not include funding for what Trump typically refers to as the "Wall." Instead, the bill includes just under $1.6 billion for increased border security.

As part of that funding, the omnibus directs roughly 92 miles of border barriers to be built or replaced, less than the "more than 100 miles of new construction for the border wall" the White House touted in a statement before the bill's release.

Also, rather than one of the 30-foot tall prototypes for the wall that Trump visited on March, any additional security is limited to the same model of fencing and levees currently used along the border.
In total, the bill contains three separate outlays for changes to physical border barriers:

• $251 million for 14 miles of new secondary fencing along the border in the San Diego sector. This was a request from Trump's budget.
• $445 million to replace existing fencing. According to congressional aides, this should refurbish 45 miles worth of barriers.
• $641 million for 33 miles of new fencing and levees in the Rio Grande Valley sector.
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Those items are short of Trump's goal, and the funding is nowhere near the $25 billion the White House sought in negotiations for the wall.

Democrats appeared ready to give Trump the full wall request during the negotiations on the omnibus, according to reports, in exchange for the codification of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) immigration program.

The DACA program protects from deportation close to 700,000 unauthorized immigrants that arrived in the US as minors. Trump ended the program in September, but gave Congress until March 5 to codify the program into law. After a court blocked the administration from ending the program, that deadline was pushed back, but Democrats have still pushed to provide certainty to the issue.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trump...ng-bill-2018-3

Also, rather than one of the 30-foot tall prototypes for the wall that Trump visited on March, any additional security is limited to the same model of fencing and levees currently used along the border.

His concrete wall is banned from funds AND HE SIGNED THIS BILL

John Salisbury


@5Strat

1) I've spent the last two days poring over writings from SCOTUS cases, Presidential Opinions, Congressional Acts and Constitutional Scholars. They all unanimously say that in matters of Declared Emergency pertaining to National Security, the President has the authority... cont.

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John Salisbury


@5Str2) , with notice to Congress, to move funding from wherever he sees fit to address the Emergency. He can take it from either discretionary OR non-discretionary spending.


https://www.whitehouse.gov/president...se-corruption/

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John Salisbury


@5Strat


Replying to @5Strat

3) In addition, according to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, amended & enacted Feb 9th, 2018 , upon Notification to Congress, the President can defund ANY appropriation from the Budget and return the funding to the Treasury for Deficit Reduction.



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John Salisbury


@5Strat




4) Again, Congress GAVE this Authority to the President from Legislation. Trump didn't invent it out of thin air. /end #MAGA #QAnon #TQFam #8Chan #TheGreatAwakening #TheStormIsHere @POTUS #InternetBillOfRights #FreeTheInternet

Yes, Trump plagarizes Ann Coulter in his efforts to tell those who voted for him what they want to hear.

But then he does something completely different with his actual policies and legislation support.

We need Ann Coulter to run for President.

Why I want Ann Coulter to run for President in 2020
https://www.alipac.us/f8/why-i-reall...2020-a-357114/