Trump Budget Makes It Official: Youre Paying For The Wall, Not Mexico

[Botany]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-budget-border-wall_us_58ca1d43e4b0ec9d29d8acab

One of the central themes of Donald Trump’s presidential campaign was to not only build a border wall, but to make Mexico pay for it. The claim didn’t just become an applause line for Trump on the campaign trail, it was a call-and-response rallying cry.

But the Trump budget proposals revealed late Wednesday include $4.1 billion for the wall. Reuters reported that Trump was asking for $1.5 billion for the current fiscal year and another $2.6 billion for the 2018 budget year, which begins Oct. 1.

The money will come from U.S. taxpayers and not Mexico, which has made it clear that it’s not paying for the wall.

Earlier this year, Trump backed off his campaign promise and admitted that Americans would end up footing the bill, but claimed Mexico would “reimburse us for the cost of the wall.”

[caroldansen]

1. You can just know that somebody somewhere will break down the wall or at least put holes in it

somewhere at some point. One sinkhole and it's toast.

[Botany]

3. One other little problem w/the wall

[rgbecker]

2. I'm sure the 24 million won't mind losing their healthcare

when they find out they're able to support building a great, big, beautiful wall instead.

Or will they?

[delisen]

4. Building the Wall is socialism for construction companies. If we are

going to give them welfare let's build something useful.