Trump: 'Mexico is paying for the wall' through savings in new trade deal
Source: The Hill
BY EMILY BIRNBAUM - 12/13/18 07:59 AM EST
President Trump on Thursday tweeted that "Mexico is paying for the wall" through savings to the U.S. in new trade deal known as known as the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement (USMCA).
Link to tweet
Trump this week threatened to partially shut down the government unless he gets the $5 billion he wants for the border wall.
He threatened before a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) that the U.S. military would build remaining sections of the wall if Democrats "do not give us votes to secure our country."
One of Trump's most popular presidential campaign platforms called on Mexico to pay for his proposed wall at the southern border, which Mexico has declined to do. Now, House GOP appropriators are considering a short-term, stopgap funding bill that would include the $5 billion in border wall funding Trump has demanded.
Read more: https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/421162-trump-mexico-is-paying-for-the-wall-through-savings-in-new-trade-deal
mucifer
(23,574 posts)NurseJackie
(42,862 posts)Maeve
(42,290 posts)pazzyanne
(6,558 posts)If Mexico is paying for the wall, tRump doesn't need his $5 billion to build it!
underpants
(182,925 posts)Trying to overwhelm the potential buyer with all these complicated numbers and such. We had one try this with us years ago, my wife and I cracked up. we are both very good at math and figurin'. My wife is like a human computer. She pointed out to him the tricks he was trying to pull before we walked out.
RobinA
(9,896 posts)who shops single for cars, I get this each and every time. While I'm not a computer in the calculating sense, I have a steel trap memory and don't write anything down. They try to change numbers all the time or pretend they didn't say what they said. Then there's when they try to tell me what I said. Not gonna work, bucko.
dubyadiprecession
(5,724 posts)If Trumps level of mental illness doesnt qualify as a cautionary example for doing this, I dont know what will.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)Otherwise, this is smoke and mirrors.
MissMillie
(38,583 posts)...if the people coming into the country at the border are terrorists, rapists, murderers and drug dealers, why would Mexico be in favor of blocking their exit?
snowybirdie
(5,240 posts)need to ratify the new NAFTA Agreement before it goes into affect? Not a done deal yet Donnie. Don't count your chickens....
EleanorR
(2,395 posts)The Liberal Lion
(1,414 posts)I'm sure trumpites will latch on to this. Only because it's something an idiot would believe.
watoos
(7,142 posts)IronLionZion
(45,547 posts)since it was driven up last year by Trump supporters buying high rather than fundamentals.
I'm sure the Republican plan to fix all this will be more tax cuts.
watoos
(7,142 posts)now back to Cohen, Manafort, and Flynn, and the soon to be released Middle East connection of dark money being funneled in to the Trump/GOP.
A DAY IN THE LIFE
(88 posts)My oldest brother's mother-in-law always had a hard time balancing her check book. My brother, a CFO at the time, would do it for her. A common mistake was when she bought something on sale, she would deduct the savings from the cost. So a savings of $20 on a $50 blouse, would be shown as costing her $10. She had multiple purchase where she had gotten 50% discounts and did not enter the checks into the checkbook, because it was FREE.
RobinA
(9,896 posts)used to use a similar trick to convince her parents to buy more things. Rent on house costs $800 a month, she talks the landlord down to $700. That means they just made an extra $100 a month to spend fun stuff. I don't think it was a lack of understanding on her part, it's a philosophy. Saving money is actually MAKING money, because you otherwise would have spent it.
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)Now I'm all confused.
treestar
(82,383 posts)no dice!
cstanleytech
(26,331 posts)in the end its still a skunk and it still will stink just like this bullshit from Trump still stinks.
Jim__
(14,088 posts)Anybody who can believe that horseshit is essentially brain dead!
TimeToGo
(1,366 posts)turbinetree
(24,720 posts)RobinA
(9,896 posts)My sister and brother in law vacation down there and have made friends in the area. Their good friends are not Trump supporters and oppose the wall. They have pretty much found that nobody down there really wants the wall because the economy is too dependent on things on both sides. I guess people need to pay attention to what candidates stand for and not what gender they are or what party they are from.
JohnnyRingo
(18,657 posts)If that's money in the pocket, apply it to your stupid campaign promise.
PeeJ52
(1,588 posts)Liar....
RGTIndy
(203 posts)We've cut out the middle-man with crazy warehouse pricing and we're passing the savings on to you!
TomCADem
(17,390 posts)... to a 10 year high, so nice try.
SunSeeker
(51,740 posts)Since your genius NAFTA II will pay for it, stop asking us taxpayers for the money!
brewens
(13,626 posts)they would not pay for the wall. So hold him to both. Get the money from Mexico and don't forget to add on the cost of the extra wasted ten feet.
procon
(15,805 posts)if Dems won't capitulate and give him $$$ ?
Javaman
(62,534 posts)he knows he's fucked if he shuts it down, so now he's scrambling to come up with a new type of unbelievable bullshit, that only his biggest mouth breather supporters will believe.
watch now as he says he's not going to shut it down because, um, err, the 'new" nafta something something something.
this is all in a very very vain attempt to save face after Nancy and Chuck made him look like the total asshole his actually is in front of the nation.
this is just another effort by the orange asshole to polish is "build the wall" turd.
ladjf
(17,320 posts)jmowreader
(50,566 posts)This furnace costs $10,000, but it uses so much less energy over time itll pay for itself!
We live in Texas and our fuel bill for heating was $39 last year. Are you saying this thing makes natural gas?
Eugene
(61,964 posts)Source: Reuters
Trump says trade deal pays for border wall, Democrats scoff
Doina Chiacu, Anthony Esposito
3 MIN READ
WASHINGTON/MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic leaders rebuked President Donald Trump on Thursday for saying Mexico will pay for a border wall through a new trade deal, while Mexicos new president said the topic has not come up in his talks with Trump.
The Republican president vowed during the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign to build a wall along the border with Mexico to slow the flow of illegal immigration, and he has long pledged that Mexico - not U.S. taxpayers - would fund it.
In a Twitter post early on Thursday, Trump said that unspecified savings for the United States as a result of the renegotiated trade deal between the United States, Mexico and Canada would pay for the wall.
Just by the money we save, MEXICO IS PAYING FOR THE WALL!, he wrote.
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One of them, House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi, ridiculed Trumps assertion on Thursday.
What money? What money? That money will be used to pay for the wall? The money that businesses make? What money is he talking about thats going to go pay for the wall? It just doesnt measure up, Pelosi told reporters at the U.S. Capitol.
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Read more: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-immigration-mexico/trump-says-trade-deal-pays-for-border-wall-democrats-scoff-idUSKBN1OC1SY
Takket
(21,639 posts)If Company X saves a million dollars in trade that goes into their coffers not the treasury. So where is the wall money???
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)believe that if they used to buy something for $1,000 but with a 25% tariff they now have to pay $1,250 and that extra $250 goes to the federal government? I know that it isn't $250 because the tariff is on the price coming in, not the retail price but it was easier writing it this way. There will be businesses that will try to raise the price 25%.