Within Trump's own bizarre ranting lies the solution to the border wall and shutdown situation.

[allgood33]

Trump rants that it is matter of national security that he gets money for his border wall.

He rants on about getting our troops out of Afghanistan and Syria.

He also states that the military and ICE etc. agree with his. policies. We are not the world's baby sitter in so many words.
We should not be spending money to help foreign nations who don't do anything for us (him). Well herein lies the solution.

All that money he proposes he is saving by bringing the troop home should provide enough savings within the Defense Department's budget to fund his wall. If he wants it so much, and if a wall is so crucial to our security, and if the military ranks agree with him, then take the money out of the military budget and keep it away from other Executive Department funding bills. It's matter of national defense to have a wall, then use money already allocated to the military and leave the rest of government alone. Money can be reallocated with Department budgets...he should order it to be done. Case closed. What is even better is to let the returning soldiers have employment in building and overseeing the building of the wall. Once the military tell us it's impractical to build a solid wall and that in some places it is impossible to erect a wall, Trump and his hawkish GOP supporters in the Congress should accept that.

[dawg day]

1. If he actually is a billionaire, he can finance it himself-- if he cares enough.

He doesn't. As someone here said, he doesn't want the wall. He wants the fight over the wall, and he won't have that if he actually got the wall. That's why he has now TWICE reneged on agreements.

[BigmanPigman]

2. They already had a ton of money for his stupid wall and security and he NEVER even used what he had!

Now he wants more (to join the preexisting unused funds). This is more BS for his cult to buy into and foam at the mouth.

[Achilleaze]

3. Big Point! Congress gave him money for the wall last year. He didn't spend it.

So the republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief is having a shutdown tantrum for his own amusement. And maybe for Putin's as well.

[hexola]

6. This is a sophomore mistake - you always spend your allocation

Or be cut...

[Achilleaze]

8. Old news story: The Wall $$$ that the republican misleader would not spend

Which makes the republican Draft Dodger's lies today all the more stinkingly FALSE.

republican lies are dangerous for America
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Bill allocated $1.6 billion for Trump’s border wall

https://thehill.com/homenews/house/341527-bill-allocates-16-billion-for-trumps-border-wall

[pecosbob]

4. Bad solution to a non-problem

Sorry. The only problem is Republican intransigence.

[Squinch]

5. LOL! ANOTHER thread from you (is this 6? 8?)telling us to agree to

the wall.

Really, it's sad now.

[allgood33]

9. sarcasm

[Squinch]

10. No, quite literal actually. It IS sad.

[hexola]

7. if we're going to get silly - can't we just buy Mexico?

5 Billion is the opening bid...

Give them some seats and few senators - and lets get on with it!

[TeamPooka]

11. MEXICO! That's the stick we need to keep using to beat up him and his sucker voters

show them for the fools they are.

[VOX]

12. That fucking wall/fence/slats is a psychotic-hack "idea" from 45's dissolving cortex...

And it should NEVER see the light of day. It’s USELESS, costly, and seriously undercuts America’s status as a force for good.

NO GODDAMNED WALL, EVER!

[ooky]

13. We don't need a wall.

Not from the military's budget or otherwise. We don't want to allow an ignoramous to waste our taxpayer's money on a stupid wall just so he can appease a bunch of morons and brag that "he won".

He may end up stealing the money from the military budget in the end, but we should oppose it.

I want to see his nuts crushed in a vice between Nancy Pelosi and Ann Coulter.