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What happened to the border wall money Congress already gave Trump? ($1.6 billion)


               
2019 Jan 14, 8:57pm   3,415 views  20 comments

by marcus   follow (7)  

Part of the answer is that it's use is being held up by Trump's brilliant govt shutdown.

There has been bipartisan building of walls along the border, but not making it some kind of big political issue that the republitards want to make it.

"Darrr, me say the democrats were for the wall before they were against the wall. "

No they weren't. Sure they've supported ongoing huge increases in "wall" and fences and border security in general, that has coincided with massive decreases in illegal immigration by Mexicans coming in that way.

But just becasue they don't support a 5 billion dollar down payment on an additional 25 billion dollar wall doesn't mean they are hypocrites.

https://qz.com/1516960/trump-speech-tonight-he-hasnt-spent-border-wall-money-he-already-has/



And the border issue is complicated by the fact that in many of the places where a wall can be built a barrier is already in place. More than 650 miles of the 2,000-mile border already have some sort of wall or fence, CBP officials have said.


Don't worry TrumpCucks, I don't expect you to stop lying about everything any time soon.

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1   marcus   @   2019 Jan 27, 2:42pm  

Why hasn't the MSM talked more about this ?

Perhaps they wanted the stupid drama, and prolonged govt shutdown ?
2   Hircus   @   2019 Jan 27, 7:49pm  

marcus says
But just becasue they don't support a 5 billion dollar down payment on an additional 25 billion dollar wall doesn't mean they are hypocrites.


True, but you gotta admit that their prior support of walls, and then doing a 180 and calling them "immoral" is pretty darn hypocritical :p
3   MrMagic   @   2019 Jan 27, 8:31pm  

marcus says
What happened to the border wall money Congress already gave Trump?


Gee Marcus, if you read the article you link, you'd have your answer:

....."The $109 million “expenditure” figure there, however, does not take into account funds that are promised to companies through signed contracts that have not yet been completed (and therefore are not yet paid).

Nearly 60% of those funds have been promised in contract awards made through the Army Corps of Engineers via Customs and Border Protection (CBP), a Department of Homeland Security spokesperson said. That includes 35 of 40 miles of replacement wall funded by the fiscal 2017 budget and $700 million of the $1.2 billion funded in the 2018 budget, she said.

In other words, the DHS has committed about 60% of the money for physical barriers via new contracts, while 40% of the money remains uncommitted. In fact, the government shutdown over the wall is stopping the agency from committing more money to build it. “An additional approximately $300 million is ready to award as soon as the government reopens” the DHS spokesperson said.

Why it has been slow going

Fiscal 2017 DHS outlays were $2.2 billion less than appropriated, in part “due to slower-than-expected spending for procurements and construction for customs enforcement and border protection infrastructure projects,” treasury secretary Steve Mnuchin and federal budget director Mick Mulvaney said in October 2017. A year later, DHS outlays were nearly $10 billion less than appropriated, due in part to delays on the money actually being handed over to the agency—building the wall became such a political fight that DHS’s budget was held up in debate over last year’s government spending bill, too (it was finally approved last March).

What a surprise, The Democrats are obstructing progress...

Is TDS blind?????

It seems to be.
4   MrMagic   @   2019 Jan 27, 8:39pm  

Well, look Johnny, there's more: Can you say Democrat Obstructionists and Hypocrites?

....."The current spending bill grants DHS $1.6 billion for Trump’s much-discussed border wall, an amount that will allow the administration to build just 33 miles of new wall, while reinforcing other areas.

That figure was suggested by the White House in exchange for a three-year extension of the “DACA” program that allows nearly one million immigrants brought to the US as children to stay and work in the country.

Democrats countered that they wanted citizenship for 1.8 million people, a permanent solution, and both sides came to a standoff, again, mirroring the back-and-forth that has happened since Trump suspended the program last September. The spending bill passed the House Thursday afternoon and the Senate early Friday morning without either long-term wall funding or a DACA solution."

Another one of of Nancy's "NO DEAL".
5   MrMagic   @   2019 Jan 27, 8:42pm  

marcus says
And the border issue is complicated by the fact that in many of the places where a wall can be built a barrier is already in place. More than 650 miles of the 2,000-mile border already have some sort of wall or fence, CBP officials have said.


There you go Marcus. That supports why Trump is asking for only another 230 miles of barrier that the border patrol requested, not 1000 miles like you keep spewing...

Aren't FACTS fun!!
6   MrMagic   @   2019 Jan 27, 8:46pm  

Hey Marcus, here you go. You can actually watch NEW wall being built. You know, part of the $1.6 that you were wondering if it was being spent.

Isn't technology wonderful, we have videos of actual construction.

Imagine that!!

www.xgP1wPCtwa4
7   MrMagic   @   2019 Jan 27, 8:50pm  

Bueller?????

Bueller???
8   MrMagic   @   2019 Jan 27, 9:03pm  

marcus says
Why hasn't the MSM talked more about this ?

Perhaps they wanted the stupid drama, and prolonged govt shutdown ?


Maybe the MSM hasn't talked about it, because they actually READ the article and can do math??

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