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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSurprise: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall
Washington (CNN)President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that the President-elect's preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April, according to House Republican officials.
The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump repeatedly said he would force Mexico to pay for the construction of the wall along the border.
The Trump team argues it will have the authority through a Bush-era 2006 law to build the wall, lawmakers say, but it lacks the money to do so. Transition officials have told House GOP leaders in private meetings they'd like to pay for the wall in the funding bill, a senior House GOP source said.
"It was not done in the Obama administration, so by funding the authorization that's already happened a decade ago, we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump's campaign pledge to secure the border," Indiana Republican Rep. Luke Messer said on Thursday.
Messer admitted it's "big dollars, but it's a question of priorities." He pointed to a border security bill that Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul proposed last year that cost roughly $10 billion.
"Democrats may well find themselves in the position to shut down all of government to stop the buildout of a wall, or of a barrier, or of a fence," Messer said.
If Mexico refuses to pay for the wall the GOP could add billions of dollars into the spending bill that needs to pass by April 28 to keep the government open. But doing so would force a showdown with Senate Democrats and potentially threaten a government shutdown.
read: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/border-wall-house-republicans-donald-trump-taxpayers/index.html
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Surprise: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall (Original Post)
bigtree
Jan 2017
OP
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)1. Walls are rarely built to keep people out
I think some of these trumpers should take heed.
bdamomma
(63,852 posts)4. that is a frightening thought
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)6. It keeps me awake at night
I studied history. Lol
SHRED
(28,136 posts)2. They think a wall will secure the border
They are dumbshits.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)3. Tunnels with rail are the main mode of transportation for the cartels.
Ohioblue22
(1,430 posts)5. only if they reach the 60 vote threshold
J_William_Ryan
(1,753 posts)7. Such a wall would be a reckless waste of money.
Republicans will defund the ACA taking from millions of Americans access to affordable healthcare and spend that money instead on a pointless, idiotic wall.
So much for conservative fiscal responsibility.