DAILY CALLER: Senate Democrats have shown their willingness to shut down the government in lieu of spending nearly $6 billion on a border wall, but compare that price tag to some of the other expenditures the government funds.
House Republicans passed a stopgap funding bill on Thursday that included $5.7 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. However, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to kill any funding measure appropriating for a wall’s construction.
Schumer has referred to the wall as “expensive and ineffective,” but just how expensive is it relative to recent expenditures?
The Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) was appropriated a $5.7 billion budget in 2018, down from the roughly $8 billion annual budget it has received since the mid-1990s. Inline with the agency’s mission statement, nearly 90 percent of the budget is used to provide grants safeguarding clear air, land and water, according to National Geographic.
A Government Accountability Office report uncovered that while the EPA’s budget has been remaining relatively stable, the amount of employees on the public relations staff has been spiking. In less than a decade, the agency increased its public relations staff by 16 percent with more than 140 employees dedicated to pushing the EPA’s message.
In 2017, the federal government spent more than twice as much on farms as the requested border wall funding. During the fiscal year, U.S. farms received $13.2 billion in subsidies, according to transparency group Open The Books. Nearly 15 percent of those subsidies went to farmers in exchange for not using their land. MORE
“The Government Lost Billions …”
“Lost” my ass.
Money was stolen. Plain and simple.
izlamo delenda est …
This GIF is more appropriate –
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That’s different so shut up.
You leave Obama alone! Pray to blessed Saint Alphonso, patron saint of blog comments, to forgive your racist blasphemy!
Make GM build the wall!
We elected a liberal liar on ’00. TARP is only the last of his many “Nanny Statr” laws that lowered living standard for working American !
The Obama administration only bailed out GM because it gave them a way to achieve their real goal of bailing out the UAW. Ask any Delphi worker. Make that former Delphi worker.
I do understand that The President can not (technically) spend funds not allocated by Congress. However, The President is Commander in Chief of the entirety of The United States Armed forces. So… If somebody else provides the material required for the wall, why can’t the entirety of The United States Armed forces follow their legal orders to use their “people” power and equipment to put it in place? (And, if the construction unions have an issue, see “your” congressional “representatives”.)
Much more like, “Kickback to UAW “for services rendered in the 2008 election.”
It sure sucked being a GM stockholder in those days. And Nashville even had to take the “Delphi” off their brand-new footy-ball stadium.
Anonymous, building the wall would be excellent training and skill maintenance for SeaBees and Army Corps of Engineers.
But we DID get the quickly-shutting-down Obamamotorwerks, and FIAT-OWNED Chrysler out of it!!! 🙄
Private investors lost more.
Anonymous has a great idea – we could build the wall using unsellable GM sedans!