Mexico to Trump: We won't pay for a border wall 'under any circumstances'
Source: Politico
By LOUIS NELSON 08/28/2017 07:10 AM EDT
Spurred by President Donald Trumps emphatic reiteration that it will eventually pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Mexican government said in a statement Sunday that it will not fund such a project under any circumstances.
As the Mexican government has always stated, our country will not pay, under any circumstances, for a wall or physical barrier built on US territory along the Mexican border, the statement from Mexicos foreign ministry read. This statement is not part of a Mexican negotiating strategy, but rather a principle of national sovereignty and dignity.
Trumps promise to construct a border wall has reentered the spotlight in recent days, with the president declaring at a rally in Phoenix last week that he is prepared to shut down the government if Congress does not include money to begin constructing the wall in a must-pass funding bill due by the end of September. He has argued that construction cannot wait for Mexico to accede to his long-held demand that it pay for the wall and that Congress should instead fund the wall on the assumption that the Mexican government will eventually pay the U.S. back.
Sunday morning, amid a flurry of tweets about Hurricane Harvey, Trump wrote that With Mexico being one of the highest crime Nations in the world, we must have THE WALL. Mexico will pay for it through reimbursement/other. In a subsequent post, the president also called NAFTA, a trade deal he has pledged to either renegotiate or back out of entirely, the worst trade deal ever made and said Canada and Mexico are both being very difficult in the renegotiation process.
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ck4829
(35,077 posts)Great strategy... if you're trying to hurt us.
Bengus81
(6,931 posts)See how that sets when social security recipients are told,"that's too bad" you won't be getting paid in the foreseeable future.
GO FOR IT TRUMP!!!
jmowreader
(50,560 posts)You really have to love a guy who won't take "fuck no, not in a million years" for an answer.