Sources: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall

[brooklynite]

Source: 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.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/border-wall-house-republicans-donald-trump-taxpayers/index.html?adkey=bn

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Gee; didn't see that coming...

[tenorly]

1. Suckers!

[Hortensis]

19. No, no, it's to SPEED UP construction.

Those who roared MEXICO in response to the blob's 'WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR THE WALL?!" will want it built as soon as possible--of course.

[Thinkingabout]

2. we have children are starving and other needs but Trump wants to spend

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Money on a wall, not smart Trump.

[Tanuki]

11. He doesn't care, none of it is his money since the corrupt POS hasn't paid any federal taxes in 20

years. Meanwhile, everyone who has conscientiously paid into Medicare, Social Security, and everything else over the years stands to get screwed over so he can erect his worthless, environmentally irresponsible vanity wall.

[Merlot]

16. None of it is his money, but it soon will be -

My guess is his companies, or his friends companies will get no bid contracts on building the wall. Cuz, you know, he's so good at building.

[olddad56]

17. We already know how much money means to Trump, I think soon, we are going to find out..

how little non white human lives mean to Trump.

[cstanleytech]

26. Non white and non rich because look at the majority of his cabinet and its full of people

who are rich.

[GP6971]

3. And the contractors building the wall

will be Trump "related" companies...either directly or by "association"...read bribes.

[bullimiami]

4. The contract goes to ....

TRUMP CONSTRUCTION.

[hibbing]

5. All in unison now...Mexico is going to pay for it! n/t

[mobeau69]

6. That didn't take long.

We're gonna build a wall and who's gonna pay for it? The American middle class taxpayer, that's who. Thanks, maggot.

[NastyRiffraff]

7. What a surprise!

NOT.

In the end, there will be no wall, of course. As usual, it was a giant con.

[keithbvadu2]

8. When Mexico builds Trump's wall

[Lady Freedom Returns]

13. There has been talk due to orange slug about the...

State of Sonora, Mexico being nice enough to let SE Arizona merge with them.

We voted Clinton along with the area around Flagstaff. Heck, Tucson has a total Dem. City Council.

We in SE Arizona are very nervous about the orange slug. So if it becomes too rocky, we could be asking "Please?!"

[keithbvadu2]

9. That guy holding the sign is delusional.

When a Trump company gets the contract, Donald will hire foreign workers for lower wages.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

10. Hiring undocumented workers is illegal - GO AFTER EMPLOYERS for a fraction of the cost- voila

problem solved

[PSPS]

12. It won't be "congress" but, more acurately, the taxpayers who will pay.

I'll bet all the work will be done by trump-affiliated businesses too, with the workers staying in trump hotels.

[Cryptoad]

14. I guess this will be a ,,,,,

no - bid contract like they gave Chaney-Haliburton on the last time the GOP wanted to build a wall...... I'm not sure all these off-shore banks have enough room for the money this GOP is going to steal from the working Folks,,,,

[Little Tich]

15. CNN Republican Presidential Debate: Donald Trump says he will make Mexico pay for wall

https://www.youtube.com/user/CNN

[riversedge]

18. Trump betrays his fans once again. Now we all pay with our taxes!

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. I still don't see this happening

If they were really serious about halting the flow of undocumented people, they would come down HARD on the employers who hire them. You have to attack the problem from the demand side. As long as there are employers who will hire them, there will be people who emigrate.

It's not unlike our stupid drug war. Going after the supply side, the traffickers and dealers, will never work because there will always be someone to take their place. Until we reduce the number of people who want to use drugs, there will be people who are happy to supply them. Of course, reducing the demand for drugs is more complex. It would mean effective rehab programs for anyone wanting them and improving the lives for people in high risk communities. It's just so much easier to build more prisons.

[SayItLoud]

21. Correct this headline!

tRUMP will "ASK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE TO PAY FOR THE WALL, NOT MEXICO"

[mdbl]

22. Every day Trump becomes a bigger weakling

He can't even get Mexico to pay for his wall. Follows Putin like a puppet. What the hell did this country do to itself?

[AgadorSparticus]

23. I guess the reality of Vicente Fox's "f*ck you" finally settled in.

[Plucketeer]

24. As an alternative...

I know where Little Hands could get some advice on putting up iron curtains!

[Paladin]

25. Trump voters need to be taunted with this.

He's going to break every promise his dumb cattle followers believed. Is there any limit to the bullshit they'll swallow?

[DonCoquixote]

27. but of course

this is all part of the plan to get us into so much debt that the Republicans can say "now we've got to cut those social programs!" Of course the cats are going to find out that no market will be able to buy verse stuff like the old American middle class was able to. Europe is likely to degenerate into Western Russia, they will not be in the mood to buy foreign goods. As far as China, why should they buy products when they can just simply steal the information need to make them and copy them? Even many of the Starbucks in China are ripoffs of the brand.

So the plutocrats will wind up being penny wise and pound foolish, yes Philip say about all those corporate taxes that they never paid any way, but they'll have less money coming in actually save and spend. Then finally the oligarchs from Eurasia or even China will come in do hostile takeovers and leave them crying like a bunch of reality stars were wondering "what ever happened to the good old days?" Well like many reality TV contestants, you are disposable to begin with, and you are willing to operate with those who were going to butcher you like beef, because they knew how to fatten your vanity. The people that once paid your overblown salarywill have to let you go, and perhaps say in the words of he you put power "you're fired!"

Of course none of this really gives me solace, as I know, if they go ahead and got all the social programs they plan to do, I'll be lucky if I'm sleeping under that wall, bridge, tax dodge that they are talking about.

[C_U_L8R]

28. When will the media point out the obvious???

Trump's stupid 'fucking' wall will do absolutely nothing
to block or slow illegal immigration. Duh, you just go
around it or under it or over it. Did anyone stop Trump
to ask him why he thinks 15th century technology is
gonna to squat??? What a world wide waste of time !!! And tax dollars.
I really don't know who's dumber, Trump or his supporters.
It's really one big barrel of clowns, Jeeeeezus.