President Donald Trump can use recently allocated funding for border security to begin building his proposed wall along the US-Mexico border, White House deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said Monday morning.
Confusion has surrounded the $1.6 billion allocated by Congress in its recent spending bill, of which only approximately $650 million can actually be used to bolster existing fencing along the border.
“The speaker told us you can use concrete,” Fox & Friends host Steve Doocy posed to Gidley. “Senator Schumer says you can’t. Only improve the fence. What are you saying there? You can use it?”
Gidley responded “It’s my understanding you can,” noting that the “Hispanic caucus came out vehemently against this bill for two reasons.”
“One is because in the letter they wrote to the president it bolsters the president’s deportation force, quote unquote, and it builds a wall.”
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders noted after the passage of the spending bill Wednesday that “100 miles” of new wall had been authorized by Congress. read more
He needs to start building something. If for no other reason than to get Ann Coulter to stop beating him up about it on a daily basis.
Federal Judge. By tomorrow morning.
Thirdtwin Liberal obama judge.
Army Corps of Engineers. Part of the military? Military be funded by that Omnibus Bill? Not a budget that controls the President. President is unbeholden to the ‘suggestions’ proposed in that bill.
Trump can keep the money from PP and build the wall 100% and Schumer and Pelosi can go fuck themselves.
Trump controls the military, not the Federal Judges.
Time will tell if I’m correct or not.
tsunami, i’m hoping you’re right. I for one would love, be thrilled to see the military and the “corpse” of engineers down there. As GEDJT said we are in a war and the enemy is threatening our security with drugs and illegals jumping our borders. its common sense to employ our boys building a defense. A maginot line that will work.
Trump to Congress: “Thanks for the $1.2 Trillion … now watch me go spend it like a coked-up O’Barky cruising Man Country”.
Not Corps of Engineers, use COMBAT Engineers. Those guys are armed. Sea Bees would be good too.
So out of 1,300 billion dollars of spending we can spend 1 billion for the wall. That’s not winning. That’s a token gesture.
Ha, no he’s not.
Repair all fences with copious amounts of razor wire.
Catapults to follow? 😀
“I love debt. I’m the king of debt.” (Donald Trump, May 5, 2016, told to Wolf Blitzed on CNN)
I will believe in the wall when I see all 1500 miles of it high enough; deep enough, and thick enough to keep out the invaders invited in to rape and pillage us by our traitorous fellow Romans.
My opinion of Ann Coulter, however, is experiencing a renewed elevation… I used to be deeply in love with her brain, but the last several years had begun to convince me she had lost it.