(CNSNews.com) – President Donald Trump’s current border wall proposal would cost $18 billion over the next ten years, according to an estimate U.S. Customs and Border Protection sent to members of Congress last week.
“The Trump administration is asking Congress for nearly $18 billion to construct more than 700 miles of new and replacement barriers along the Southwest border, its most detailed description yet of the president’s vision of a wall separating the U.S. from Mexico,” the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday.
That $18 billion would equal just 0.0338 percent of the $53.128 trillion the Congressional Budget Office currently estimates the federal government will spend over that same 10-year period.
It also equals only 2.7 percent of the money the federal government will spend on the food stamp program (the “Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program”), which will eat up $679 billion in the ten fiscal years from 2018 through 2027, according to CBO’s estimate.
The $679 billion the CBO estimates the federal government will spend on food stamps during that ten years is 37.7 times as much as the $18 billion it would spend on President Trump’s proposed border wall.
At the same time, the $18 billion the required for the border wall would equal a mere 0.34 percent of the $5.232 trillion CBO estimates that the federal government will spend on Medicaid over the next ten years. more here
As the libs say when they want the spending “a rounding error.”
Why only 700 miles?
But look at what the potential savings on welfare will be!
In related news, ICE is targeting 100 7-11 stores. And they are going after the employers. Yes! That’s how it gets done.
http://dfw.cbslocal.com/2018/01/10/immigration-raids-target-7-eleven-stores/
@Left Coast Dan — and I just read this morning that ICE raided 20 “maternity hotels” in L.A. that cater to Chinese women who book rooms to give birth to their children in America. The article said that there are some 200 such ‘hotels’ in southern CA. Each woman is paying $40-80K for the services. How’d you like to be on THAT detail?!
PLENTY OF MONEY!
Take it from the U.N. / NATO and ask our international “friends” to pay the f@ck up!
Is this including the monthly utility bill to electrify the fence?
Illegal drugs are crippling our country. The humanitarian issue aside, I can’t fathom how they tote up the costs associated with that.
I think California is already trying to ‘fence’ the country at the pawn shop…
President Trump just made a statment that should calm down nervous Nellys on the right. He just said in his news conference, no compromise on the Wall. It must be part of any immigration legistlation Congress puts together.
Eliminate waste or fraud in government and the wall could be built with plenty of money left over.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) reportestimated a cost of $26 billion for a ”Dreamer” amnesty.
Sending them back and building the wall saves $8 billion on that alone. This doesn’t even factor in all other groups and the burdens they impose on the system.
Acorrding to the Washington Examiner:
he swelling population of illegal immigrants and their kids is costing American taxpayers $135 billion a year, the highest ever, driven by free medical care, education and a huge law enforcement bill, according to the the most authoritative report on the issue yet.
Another way to look at it..
As of January 2017, the U.S. nameplate generating capacity for wind power was 82,183 megawatts.
It cost about $3.6 million to install a 1.5 MW wind turbine.
At 82,183 MW in the US, that’s equivalent to 54,788 of these bird killers.
$18 billion would buy only 4938 1.5 MW turbines, or 9% of the CURRENT US wind market.
Keep in mind, wind capacity and the energy generated are two different things. Of the 82,183 MW capacity, there’s only about 40% generation, or 32,873 MW of generation. Or 49,309 MW of power capacity paid for that will never be used, or 13,697 1.5 MW wind turbines.
So, if you subtract the wall cost from the never used capacity, you’re still overbuilt by 8759 turbines. That’s $31 BILLION (over spent for wind power) even after subtracting the $18 billion cost of the wall.
If we’re comparing liberal necessary costs.
That better not be the wall in that picture.
Nowhere near tall enough, I don’t see any spikes or razor wire, and where the connectors for electricity?
Any money we no longer send to Pakistan or the Palis could go straight to building the Wall.