Trump wants $18 billion American, not Mexican, for the wall

[NYcarbineer]

First phase of Trump border wall gets $18 billion price tag, in new request to lawmakers

I think Trump may have lied to you people about who was going to pay for that white elephant on the border.

 

[Mr Natural]

Trumpy lie?

No way!

 

[Aldo Raine]

Trumpy lie?

No way!

I KNOW RIGHT! Say it isn't so!

 

[Sunni Man]

I really don't care who pays.

Just get the Wall built. .....

 

[Care4all]

Phew! That's Eighteen thousand million dollars, as in 18,000 million dollars....!

 

[Care4all]

I really don't care who pays.

Just get the Wall built. .....

isn't it built already, for the most part?

 

[Jimmy_Chitwood]

First phase of Trump border wall gets $18 billion price tag, in new request to lawmakers

I think Trump may have lied to you people about who was going to pay for that white elephant on the border.

good thing you snuck across already

 

[Care4all]

I think all the corporations that got their beyond belief HUGE huge huge yearly tax cut, should get together and pay for it! why do we need government and people in Maine to pay for it?

 

[Sunni Man]

I really don't care who pays.
Just get the Wall built. .....

isn't it built already, for the most part?

There is a lame fence along much of the border, that wouldn't stop an illegal in a wheelchair from crossing.

We need a massive 30+ foot Wall with guard towers built. ....

 

[Mr Natural]

I think all the corporations that got their beyond belief HUGE huge huge yearly tax cut, should get together and pay for it! why do we need government and people in Maine to pay for it?

Not to mention the downward pressure cheap immigrant labor puts on American wages.

(Not that Americans do those jobs anyway.)

 

[Care4all]

We rank 49th in internet access..... our State would be better off using our federal tax moneys to build our own infra structure up here, and get fast broadband internet access in the State, our small businesses would grow tremendously and big businesses would come to the State!

you in the South should take care of the wall and the illegal Mexicans, and we in Maine, will take care of the Canadians!

 

[Penelope]

I think all the corporations that got their beyond belief HUGE huge huge yearly tax cut, should get together and pay for it! why do we need government and people in Maine to pay for it?

You are right , why should us peons pay for it.

 

[Sunni Man]

We spend more than that guarding the border around Iran. .....

 

[Care4all]

I really don't care who pays.
Just get the Wall built. .....

isn't it built already, for the most part?

There is a lame fence along much of the border, that wouldn't stop an illegal in a wheelchair from crossing.

We need a massive 30+ foot Wall with guard towers built. ....

BUT THE 18000 MILLION DOLLARS is for a fence, no wall, and no towers.....?

 

[Moonglow]

Why build a wall when roads go unrepaired?

 

[Mr Natural]

We spend more than that guarding the border around Iran. .....

That'll change in an instant once those Iranians start mowing our lawns, washing our cars, and cleaning our hotel rooms.

 

[LordBrownTrout]

Lol, yet dems didn't blink for a millisecond over a stimulus that lined the pockets of O's buds and left the taxpayer holding a pile of dung. Now, they're screeching from the mountain tops over 18 billion. Falling on deaf ears.

 

[Remodeling Maidiac]

First phase of Trump border wall gets $18 billion price tag, in new request to lawmakers

I think Trump may have lied to you people about who was going to pay for that white elephant on the border.

Don't care, build it.

 

[usmbguest5318]

First phase of Trump border wall gets $18 billion price tag, in new request to lawmakers

Why TF does he want any U.S. taxpayer money to pay for a wall that he asserted Mexico would pay for?

• July 2017 -- Asked whether he still expects Mexico to pay for his signature campaign promise, Mr Trump responded, “Absolutely." ... Mr Trump, meanwhile, has started proposing alternative solutions, such constructing the wall with solar panels. "This way, Mexico will have to pay much less money."
• August 2017 -- Press Conference in Finland:
  Reporter: The southern border wall, is your plan still to have Mexico pay for the wall?
  TRUMP: Yes, it will.
• April 2016
  The key to the wall’s financing, Trump wrote in a two-page memo to the Washington Post, is threatening to halt money transfers from Mexican immigrants in the US to family back home. These remittances amount to nearly $25bn each year, roughly 2% of the Mexican gross domestic product, according to the World Bank. Cutting off these money transfers could doom the Mexican economy to recession and severely damage diplomatic relations.
  
  “It’s an easy decision for Mexico,” Trump wrote in the memo, written on campaign stationary emblazoned with his “Make America Great Again!” motto. “Make a one-time payment of $5-$10bn to ensure that $24bn continues to flow into their country year after year."
• April 2016
  Donald Trump would try to force Mexico to pay for a border wall by targeting billions of dollars in remittances sent by immigrants living in the U.S., according to a memo released by his campaign Tuesday.
  
  The memo outlines in new detail how Trump would try to compel Mexico to pay for the 1,000-mile wall he’s promised to build along the Southern border if he becomes president.
  
  In his proposal, Trump threatened to change a rule under the USA Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law, to cut off a portion of the funds sent to Mexico through money transfers known as remittances. His plan would also bar non-Americans from wiring money outside of the U.S. unless they can provide documentation establishing their legal status in the country.
  
  Trump said he would withdraw the threat if Mexico makes a one-time payment to finance the wall.
  
  “It’s an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year,” the memo reads.
• Sept 2015 -- "We are going to build a wall. You’re going to pay for the wall,” the brash billionaire said he would tell the Mexican government. “The wall itself, we own.”

There should be an outright revolt if Congress appropriates one red cent for that damned wall!

 

[LordBrownTrout]

First phase of Trump border wall gets $18 billion price tag, in new request to lawmakers

Why TF does he want any U.S. taxpayer money to pay for a wall that he asserted Mexico would pay for?

• July 2017 -- Asked whether he still expects Mexico to pay for his signature campaign promise, Mr Trump responded, “Absolutely." ... Mr Trump, meanwhile, has started proposing alternative solutions, such constructing the wall with solar panels. "This way, Mexico will have to pay much less money."
• August 2017 -- Press Conference in Finland:
  Reporter: The southern border wall, is your plan still to have Mexico pay for the wall?
  TRUMP: Yes, it will.
• April 2016
  The key to the wall’s financing, Trump wrote in a two-page memo to the Washington Post, is threatening to halt money transfers from Mexican immigrants in the US to family back home. These remittances amount to nearly $25bn each year, roughly 2% of the Mexican gross domestic product, according to the World Bank. Cutting off these money transfers could doom the Mexican economy to recession and severely damage diplomatic relations.
  
  “It’s an easy decision for Mexico,” Trump wrote in the memo, written on campaign stationary emblazoned with his “Make America Great Again!” motto. “Make a one-time payment of $5-$10bn to ensure that $24bn continues to flow into their country year after year."
• April 2016
  Donald Trump would try to force Mexico to pay for a border wall by targeting billions of dollars in remittances sent by immigrants living in the U.S., according to a memo released by his campaign Tuesday.
  
  The memo outlines in new detail how Trump would try to compel Mexico to pay for the 1,000-mile wall he’s promised to build along the Southern border if he becomes president.
  
  In his proposal, Trump threatened to change a rule under the USA Patriot Act, an anti-terrorism law, to cut off a portion of the funds sent to Mexico through money transfers known as remittances. His plan would also bar non-Americans from wiring money outside of the U.S. unless they can provide documentation establishing their legal status in the country.
  
  Trump said he would withdraw the threat if Mexico makes a one-time payment to finance the wall.
  
  “It’s an easy decision for Mexico: make a one-time payment of $5-10 billion to ensure that $24 billion continues to flow into their country year after year,” the memo reads.
• Sept 2015 -- "We are going to build a wall. You’re going to pay for the wall,” the brash billionaire said he would tell the Mexican government. “The wall itself, we own.”

There should be an outright revolt if Congress appropriates one red cent for that damned wall!

Yeah, whatever. Lol. There was no revolt when O lined his buds pockets with the stimulus nor when he was QEing 6 trillion to wall street. Your 18 billion is falling on deaf ears. No one cares.