The cost of Trump's wall compared to the programs he's proposing to cut
The cost of Trumps wall compared to the programs hes proposing to cut
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/03/the-cost-of-trumps-wall-compared-to-the-programs-hes-proposing-to-cut-2/
The fiscal 2018 price for President Trumps border wall is in: $2.6 billion. Thats a cost to U.S. taxpayers, not a cost many people any longer think will be picked up by the Mexican government.
The $2.6 billion is more than twice the annual costs of 21st Century Community Learning Centers created across the country to fund programs run before and after school and throughout the summer. You could actually throw in the $190 million spent on teaching students with disabilities and limited English proficiency and still not match the wall costs.
The wall, of course, is supposed to protect Americans from the cheap labor making its way illegally into the country. It might strike some as odd that, while investing in the wall, the administration has opted to disinvest in a variety of economic programs. The Economic Development Administrations $221 million budget is wiped out in Trumps plan. Ditto the $434 million dedicated annually to job training for older low-income people. And the $119 million aimed every year at 420 economically depressed counties in Appalachia.
There are plenty of options, of course. What there wont be anymore, under the Trump budget, are the $20 million spent on National Heritage Areas or the $13.2 million spent on the National Wildlife Refuge Fund.