Trump Reneges on Who Pays for Wall

[finnbow]

Surprise, surprise.

Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April, according to House Republican officials.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politi...ers/index.html

[barbara]

This will be fun to watch.

[BlueStreak]

Well, who could've seen that coming?

Next, Congress tells him where he can erect his stupid ass wall. Then, maybe they'll inform him that the 35% tariff isn't happening either, because it's inflationary and runs the risk of sparking a trade war that won't be good for anyone?

[finnbow]

Der Trumpenfuhrer's latest tweet on the wall:

“The dishonest media does not report that any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!”

You have to be mighty stupid (or Joad or Whell) to believe this nonsense.

[MrPots]

We can pay for a wall to keep desperate people out, we can pay to police the world, but we can't pay for health care and education for our own citizens. We're an asshole nation.

[Oerets]

Somehow Obama and the Dems will get the blamed for this!


Barney

[whell]

Originally Posted by finnbow

Surprise, surprise.

Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April, according to House Republican officials.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politi...ers/index.html

This post should be added to the fake news forum.

There's no "break of a campaign promise" here, as the CNN article alleges. Trump never said that Mexico would "pre-pay for the construction of the wall".

From April 2016:

Starting on “day 1,” Trump writes, he would issue a warning to Mexico that unless it pays his desired amount, he will promulgate a new federal provision that would lead to a sweeping confiscation of funds sent by Mexicans in the United States who lack documentation of their “lawful presence.”

It's not day 1 yet. The remittances referenced above were always expected to be collected in the future.

In the memo, Trump said he would threaten to change a rule under the USA Patriot Act antiterrorism law to cut off a portion of the funds sent to Mexico through money transfers, commonly known as remittances. The threat would be withdrawn if Mexico made “a one-time payment of $5-10 billion” to pay for the border wall, he wrote.

There was never a statement that we'd wait to build the wall until full payment was received. The priority as stated was to get the wall built.

Also, "the wall" has already been started, and funding had previously been appropriated, including funds to extend what has already been built.

[finnbow]

Originally Posted by whell

This post should be added to the fake news forum.

There's no "break of a campaign promise" here, as the CNN article alleges. Trump never said that Mexico would "pre-pay for the construction of the wall"...

Yet again, you show your gullibility has no bounds.

[HarmanKardon]

Welcome to the Stone Age, America.

[HarmanKardon]

I am so glad that my mother turned 90 (January, 2nd), before the American Hitler will extinguish this planet.