Trump plans on Wednesday to sign an executive order to direct funds to the building of a wall
Source: NY Times
WASHINGTON President Trump will order the construction of a Mexican border wall on Wednesday, White House officials said, and is mulling plans to stop Syrian refugees from entering the country and to slash immigration of refugees from terror prone nations, perhaps as early as this week.
During an appearance at the Department of Homeland Security on Wednesday, Mr. Trump plans to sign an executive order to direct federal funds to be shifted toward the building of a wall on the southern border that became a signature promise of his campaign. He has argued that doing so is vital to gaining control over the illegal flow of immigrants into the United States.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/24/us/politics/wall-border-trump.html?action=Click&contentCollection=BreakingNews&contentID=64836367&pgtype=article
Can the President direct Federal Funds to build this monstrosity? Isn't Congress in charge of the purse strings?
meadowlark5
(2,795 posts)I thought the purse strings were held by congress - not that they wouldn't approve it. But I didn't think the executive branch had the authority to appropriate funds.
Sancho
(9,070 posts)NoGoodNamesLeft
(2,056 posts)I think he's pissed off that people aren't drooling over him so he's being a vindictive little asshole. They need to impeach his ass fast.
El Mimbreno
(777 posts)Six corporate bankruptcies and he came out unscathed. And he promised to run the country like he runs ois businesses.
pnwmom
(108,994 posts)appropriated in a Federal budget without new legislation?
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,600 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)Does he?
bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)Some watchdog group might sue over this ... even if he goes by
the fence the Bushes planned and started, it wasn't a wall and the
money is not just lying around, Congress has to appropriate it
nini
(16,672 posts)because they'll just use the tunnels the have.
bdamomma
(63,922 posts)he is going to cause a lot of damage to the US.
He is on a whirlwind and gutting everything, Now he wants that fucking wall??? He is destroying everything.
He is a tyrant/moron.
still_one
(92,394 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)When does the "carnage" begin?
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)dchill
(38,532 posts)bdamomma
(63,922 posts)still_one
(92,394 posts)National Security
Trump to sign executive orders enabling construction of proposed border wall and targeting sanctuary cities
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/president-trump-is-planning-to-sign-executive-orders-on-immigration-this-week/2017/01/24/aba22b7a-e287-11e6-a453-19ec4b3d09ba_story.html?hpid=hp_hp-top-table-main_trumpdhs910p%3Ahomepage%2Fstory
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,010 posts)What was that about the Canadian immigration website crashing??
TeamPooka
(24,254 posts)Rhiannon12866
(206,010 posts)The very next post I happened to look at was by someone discussing seeking asylum elsewhere. Seriously...
Stonepounder
(4,033 posts)1. is lower than it has been in 40 years. (http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/13/politics/fact-check-immigration/)
2. illegal immigrants coming in are just about completely offset by emigrants heading back to Mexico.
And Paul Ryan might not be happy with derTrumpenfurheur usurping the House's Constitutional authority to initiate spending bills. The Orange Whackadoodle thinks the Federal Budget is just a huge pool of money the he can spend any way he wants.
I hope Congress gets off its butt and realizes that they have a deranged incompetent in the White House that they need to get out before he completely destroyes the country.
groundloop
(11,522 posts)Attempting the usurp Congress' authority to control the Country's purse strings is surely going to piss off more than a few congress critters, even the repubs. I may be wrong, but I suspect tRump just lost any cooperation from Congress.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)But he did say he would get Mexico to pay for it.....
What if he seized assets of deported immigrants or forfeiture of money, such as wire transfers to Central America?
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)20 or 30 years...
GusBob
(7,286 posts)Grannies blocking bulldozers will be the measure of it
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)that the people so afraid of their government want their government to fence them in.
Rural_Progressive
(1,107 posts)Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)Better tune in, President Trump...it's must-see teevee!
azmom
(5,208 posts)to pay for the wall, he would have to target Mexican immigrants.
azmom
(5,208 posts)With the US to stop Central American's from reaching the US border by detaining them in Mexico. A Diplomat from Mexico stated that this cooperation could cease if Trump keeps being hostile to Mexico.
TeddyBear 1
(79 posts)HUGE waste of money..
jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Or at least they better. He has just announced he is overthrowing Congress on Wednesday, and they need to get rid of the bastard. Now.
Phoenix61
(17,019 posts)They would fine the heck out of employers that hire them. That would generate money for the government and deter employers from hiring them. Hmm... wonder why they don't do that? Oh yeah, all that cheap labor.
BainsBane
(53,066 posts)Bayard
(22,149 posts)The economy of CA would crash if such a thing was built--and enforced. Big agriculture absolutely depends on undocumented workers. I don't see that a wall is going to do anything anyway, unless they electrify or mine it.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)BainsBane
(53,066 posts)Congress appropriates money for spending. It's in the fucking constitution.
LisaL
(44,974 posts)And it's only been a few days.
Fasten up your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ride.
still_one
(92,394 posts)Flatpicker
(894 posts)That Spaceballs was going to be prescient.
I say we have a national holiday every January 20th Called Mel Brooks day.
Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)He's not king (he thinks he is) and cannot just 'order' things done.
What about the Native American land the wall would have to go through?
Is this what I pay taxes for??
LisaL
(44,974 posts)Lifelong Protester
(8,421 posts)obamanut2012
(26,137 posts)DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)I read there is 175M available in DHS to study/plan/assess, etc. a border wall. That's probably what's being redirected, but it's a drop in the bucket.
Freethinker65
(10,048 posts)Tanuki
(14,920 posts)(the cuts favored by Tom Price, his HHS nominee). I guess for people like Trump who go for decades at a time paying no federal income tax while living in luxury and flying a private jet, it's all the stuff of fantasy anyway and untethered to the reality of people's daily lives.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2017/jan/10/charles-schumer/schumer-trump-and-his-hhs-pick-tom-price-odds-medi/
Cha
(297,655 posts)YOHABLO
(7,358 posts)jobs, repeal and replace the ACA, all while lowering taxes on the rich and corporations. Well I'll be damned.
SamKnause
(13,110 posts)They are the greatest threat this country and the world faces.
murielm99
(30,761 posts)and the hell with Congress and everybody else. He will find out that it does not work that way, and make enemies in his own party.
He is just like a kid who wants to be a cowboy, fireman, astronaut and baseball player all at the same time. Most kids grow up. Not this one.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)The only hope that we have is that he will eventually just get bored and quit.
Even Godzilla finally walked back into the sea
Cryptoad
(8,254 posts)Hard Times are a coming !
struggle4progress
(118,338 posts)pfitz59
(10,390 posts)Response to still_one (Original post)
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C_U_L8R
(45,020 posts)and needs to go back to school for a
101 class in how this country works.
What a weak ineffective President.
HopeAgain
(4,407 posts)Will there be less TSA agents at our airports?
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Orange Julius will stiff the contractors working on the wall.
keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Trump and Idi Amin on spending money
http://www.newvision.co.ug/new_vision/news/1290570/44-money-uganda
A story is told of a former Governor of Bank of Uganda who was killed after defying orders from President Idi Amin to print money. It is reported that Joseph Mubiru, was summoned by Amin and asked to release money urgently. The governor told Amin that the treasury did not have money. -