Author Topic: Fact check: Trump says spending bill starts work on his border wall. It doesn't.  (Read 755 times)

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Offline ABX

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So we are waiting another year.. maybe..

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The money earmarked for border security can only be used to repair and build previously-approved fencing.

....But Trump's claim — that the $1.6 billion triggers work starting on the wall he's promised — is false. The funds earmarked for border protection construction and improvements can only be used to repair and build previously-approved fencing, according to the bill. There is $38 million in funds earmarked for their planning and design of border walls, but none for the construction of a new kind of wall like the prototypes Trump recently toured in San Diego.......

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/fact-check-trump-says-spending-bill-starts-work-his-border-n859561



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Another fail of the Suckubus bill.
The Republic is lost.

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Sooooo..... is he lying or just that totally clueless??  I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that.

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The first spending bill had verbage in it that there would be no monies allocated for future fence.  Obviously the past several spending bills still don't allocate monies needed. Trump seems to have become the great pretender ... he know he's not going to get the money needed. I decided not to use the word liar as I didn't want the spears coming towards me from his supporters along with their arguments that he's just beginning ... he needs more time.  Where have we heard that one before?  :whistle:
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I thought that Mexico was going to pay for the wall.
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Ronald Reagan: “Rather than...talking about putting up a fence, why don’t we work out some recognition of our mutual problems and make it possible for them to come here legally with a work permit…earning here they pay taxes here.”

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I thought that Mexico was going to pay for the wall.

I've also been told that the wall is just symbolic.  Trump never really meant for an actual wall to be built. 

You see, there is an explanation (excuse or lie) for every occasion.  Sometimes, more than one.

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Sooooo..... is he lying or just that totally clueless??  I'm not sure I want to know the answer to that.

He's lying to save face.

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I've also been told that the wall is just symbolic.  Trump never really meant for an actual wall to be built. 

You see, there is an explanation (excuse or lie) for every occasion.  Sometimes, more than one.
I stand with Roosgirl.

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He's lying to save face.

What leadership  *****rollingeyes*****
I stand with Roosgirl.