McConnell, Ryan Say Congress Will Pay for Trump's $12B Border Wall
Source: ABC News
ouse Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said today that Congress will forge ahead with plans to approve funds for President Donald Trump's border wall, which they estimate will cost $12 billion to $15 billion.
"We intend to address the wall issue ourselves, and the president can deal with his relations with other countries on that issue and others," McConnell told reporters at a GOP policy retreat in Philadelphia.
Ryan promised that building the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border will not add to the federal deficit.
He said he expects Congress to address the wall in a supplemental funding bill after a formal request from the White House.
Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mcconnell-ryan-congress-pay-trumps-12b-border-wall/story?id=45063195
See, this is why we can't have nice things.
question everything
(47,535 posts)and explain their constituents why they can find money for this but not for bringing the jobs back.
Or for looking for the missing votes.
IronLionZion
(45,534 posts)louis-t
(23,297 posts)Make sure you get paid up front.
C Moon
(12,221 posts)Womyns Rights
(34 posts)CountAllVotes
(20,878 posts)Nail on head btw!!!
thegoose
(3,115 posts)Unbelievable. Traitors, all of them.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)aggiesal
(8,924 posts)Stadiums with that money!!!
No, really, there are a lot of better uses for that money, like maybe
pay of advanced education, actually spend money on infrastructure ...
Nothing like pandering to your moronic base.
we will have our own Maginot Line and those of us old enough remember how that went...geez these people are so fucking stupid!!!!!!!!!
bravenak
(34,648 posts)yallerdawg
(16,104 posts)Thank God!
I was afraid we would have to pay for it!
Nash Teeth
(57 posts)Just asking.
groundloop
(11,523 posts)NickB79
(19,271 posts)Prepare to pay a shitload more for produce when you can't get Mexicans to pick tomatoes for cheap anymore. We'll see how many white guys show up to sweat under the blazing sun instead.
Between this and cancelling the TPP (that promised to increase agricultural exports), Trump is really going to screw his rural base. And after seeing all the farmers with Trump signs in their fields this fall, all I can do is laugh!
Kittycow
(2,396 posts)There was a southern state a few years back that tightened laws against migrant labor and the crops rotted in the field.
I have 0 sympathy for farmers for trump. The evil part of me hopes they pay for their vote.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)ffr
(22,671 posts)Then it'll probably fall over in a stiff wind.
Chipper Chat
(9,692 posts)But it will have 1000 tunnels under it.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,021 posts)They're just sticking us with the bill.
How do you like them oranges, Trump voters???
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Because he's a freakin Republican Tax Dodger
just like he's a freakin Republican Draft Dodger
sad
Generator
(7,770 posts)knows he's just as bad now as Trump. Siding with bullshit. Siding with a madman. Money for this but not health care and seniors.
Rot in hell Ryan. You deserve it prettyboy.
coco22
(1,258 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)Iggo
(47,568 posts)WE are the ones paying for it.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)My bets on Social Security and Medicare for starters
And for everyone that thinks that we have top play nice----------------------NO
Its time to take to the streets yesterday and tomorrow and the next day.
F*** these right wing fascist all of them
groundloop
(11,523 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)WE need to RatF**k these ass***es starting in 2018 and 2020, just like they did to us
coco22
(1,258 posts)this wall and other shit they are proposing. I thought republiCONS said "we got to cut the spending" We got to cut the spending but they need to spend what is in the coffers to destroy the average american.
turbinetree
(24,720 posts)is watching at home and wondering how in the hell did we get this way...................we got Ratf**ked, and I encourage everyone to read the book by David Daily.
WE can win the popular vote but we can't win the RatF**ked, and it needs to start for 2018 and 2020.
It will take 100 progressives to out vote the 94 fascist that go to vote..
My attitude game on, we did it during the Vietnam fiasco and we did it during the Iraq fiacso
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,043 posts)Talking Points Memo
By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published JANUARY 26, 2017, 8:47 AM EDT
After President Donald Trump on Wednesday signed an executive action ordering the construction of a wall along the United States' border with Mexico, Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX) issued a scathing statement criticizing Trump's order.
"The facts have not changed. Building a wall is the most expensive and least effective way to secure the border," Hurd said in a Wednesday statement. "Each section of the border faces unique geographical, cultural, and technological challenges that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers the agents on the ground with the resources they need. A wall may be an effective tool in densely populated areas, but a variety of tools are needed between Brownsville, Texas and San Diego, California."
Hurd, who represents a large swath of the border, noted that it's not possible to build the wall in certain areas along the border.
"The 23rd District of Texas, which I represent, has over 800 miles of the border, more than any other Member of Congress, and it is impossible to build a physical wall in much of its terrain," the congressman said in the statement. "Big Bend National Park and many areas in my district are perfect examples of where a wall is unnecessary and would negatively impact the environment, private property rights, and economy. There is no question that we must secure our border, but we need an intelligence-led approach in order to effectively combat the 19 criminal organizations currently operating in Mexico."
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Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/will-hurd-trump-border-wall
madokie
(51,076 posts)throw the assholes who hire undocumented workers in jail. Help the Mexican people to build a better life for themselves at home and they'll stay home where I'm sure most of them would rather be anyway but due to the lack of opportunity they have no choice but to immigrate here hoping for the best.
This can be solved without hurting anyone and without building a stupid ass tRump wall.
Our drug so called 'war' is a big part of the problem too.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,215 posts)And that's the only thing that makes sense. I've worked for 3 companies that hired undocumented workers. Two on a small scale, another on a large scale (a commercial landscaping company). The way they get around the law is that it is INCREDIBLY easy to get fake ID, fake "green" cards and fake Social Security cards. Some are good facsimiles, some are obvious counterfeits.
The thing is, the federal government doesn't REQUIRE that employers to confirm the validity of the documents. They can, through the Department of Labor's website, but they aren't required to.
I was the bookkeeper, but also handled new hire paperwork. There was one time that a new hire's documents were obviously fake. I spoke to the Operations Manager about it and he said "All we're required to do is have a copy of their IDs on file with their I-9s. You've done your due diligence." And yes, they hired him.
So, I would say that a very simple thing they can do is to REQUIRE employers to confirm the validity of an employee's identity and work status. They already have to register new hires with their state attorney general for the purposes of child support. Maybe they should require the states to do the checking.
Of course there will be push back from all the businesses who hire undocumented workers. There will probably be push back from the states too.
Beyond that, they need to come down HARD on the employers who hire undocumented workers. Big fines and jail time. As long as they know they can find jobs, the workers will still emigrate.
Or they could update the immigration laws.
It's just like the drug problem. You'll never solve the problem by locking up the dealers. There will always be more to take their place. You have to attack it from the demand side, the users. Offer rehab to anyone who wants it and address the reasons why people turn to drugs in the first place.
madokie
(51,076 posts)We're on the same page
madokie
(51,076 posts)fuck these sumbit*hes
logosoco
(3,208 posts)How can I even look at my grandsons and explain this?
underpants
(182,883 posts)And they know it. There is no way we could pay for this. No way.
muntrv
(14,505 posts)Tanuki
(14,921 posts)To paraphrase him, what has he got to lose. He should put his money where his mouth is.
moondust
(20,006 posts)doc03
(35,378 posts)Now comrade Trumputin builds one. Did that asshole ever hear of airplanes, ladders and boats?
bluescribbler
(2,123 posts)They're living in a dream world.
tavernier
(12,401 posts)Congress stops payment on all social security checks, cancels social security program, effective immediately, in order to pay for border wall between United States and Mexico.
In other news, Purina cat food sales reach record highs among seniors.
Grins
(7,231 posts)S'plain that one, please. Magic?
BumRushDaShow
(129,495 posts)Like the old days. Obama took Bush's war spending and put it back on the books as part of the regular budget/appropriation process (versus doing the "supplemental appropriations" back in 2009 -
By JACKIE CALMES
FEB. 19, 2009
WASHINGTON For his first annual budget next week, President Obama has banned four accounting gimmicks that President George W. Bush used to make deficit projections look smaller. The price of more honest bookkeeping: A budget that is $2.7 trillion deeper in the red over the next decade than it would otherwise appear, according to administration officials. The new accounting involves spending on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Medicare reimbursements to physicians and the cost of disaster responses. But the biggest adjustment will deal with revenues from the alternative minimum tax, a parallel tax system enacted in 1969 to prevent the wealthy from using tax shelters to avoid paying any income tax.
Even with bigger deficit projections, the Obama administration will put the country on a sustainable fiscal course by the end of Mr. Obamas term, Peter R. Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, said Thursday in an interview. Mr. Orszag did not provide details of how the administration would reduce a deficit expected to reach at least $1.5 trillion this year.
Mr. Obamas banishment of the gimmicks, which have been widely criticized, is in keeping with his promise to run a more transparent government. Fiscal sleight of hand has long been a staple of federal budgets, giving rise to phrases like rosy scenario and magic asterisks.The $2.7 trillion in additional deficit spending, Mr. Orszag said, is a huge amount of money that would just be kind of a magic asterisk in previous budgets.The president prefers to tell the truth, he said, rather than make the numbers look better by pretending.
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As for war costs, Mr. Bush included little or none in his annual military budgets, instead routinely asking Congress for supplemental appropriations during the year. Mr. Obama will include cost projections for every year through the 2019 fiscal year to cover overseas military contingencies nearly $500 billion over 10 years.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/20/us/politics/20budget.html
hollowdweller
(4,229 posts)itcfish
(1,828 posts)The AMERICAN PEOPLE will pay
Barbara2423
(460 posts)lowering taxes for the working people.
Initech
(100,104 posts)Paul and Mitch should both be removed from office.
Ilsa
(61,698 posts)I'm sure it's no big deal to most of them.
Hey, they said they'd pay for it.
doc03
(35,378 posts)dubyadiprecession
(5,722 posts)with almost no effectiveness?
Time will prove the wall as a Huge mistake.