Trump Backtracks, Says Taxpayers, Not Mexico, Will Pay For His Wall
Source: Alternet
After more than a year of half-baked promises to stick the bill for his “big, beautiful, powerful” border wall with the Mexican government, members of Trump’s transition team have admitted that the centerpiece of the president-elect’s campaign was built on an obvious, impossible lie.
Citing a “senior House GOP source,” CNN reports that “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.” Experts have put the price tag for the wall anywhere from several to $14 billion, according to Politico, a figure that leaves out necessary costs from “maintenance to border patrol agents to purchasing private property from Texas landowners.” By tapping Congress for funds, Trump’s team has finally come clean about that fact that American tax dollars will be poured into a wasteful, unnecessary and inefficient project likely to worsen relations with our neighbors to the south.
According to CNN, House Republicans and members of Trump’s team plan to use a 2006 bill signed by President George W. Bush which granted permission for construction of a barrier along the border. Though that dormant legislation currently lacks necessary funding to fulfill Trump’s xenophobic vision, a cash infusion by Congress -- provided by tax-paying American workers -- would underwrite construction.
“There’s already in existing law the authorization for hundreds of miles of build out on the southern border...so, one important step in the right direction will be funding the existing law and beginning the building out of hundreds of miles of wall, or fence, on the southern border,“ Luke Messer, a House Republican from Indiana, told Politico. “If tied to the rest of government funding, it’s much harder for the Democrats to stop, and by the way, I think it’s much harder for Democrats to vote against it if what you’re doing is authorizing funding for an existing law.”
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Maybe Trump is thinking that the 30% tariff he's threatening to slap on American manufacturers for building their products in Mexico will be used to pay for The Wall.
If so, it's still not Mexico paying for it. It's American consumers.
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Mexico is not going to pay for the wall, they are going to pay for the wall with all of the money they made while Obama was president. 
