Jared Kushner's new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump's border wall
Source: stamford advocate
President Donald Trump has made his son-in-law Jared Kushner the de facto project manager for constructing his border wall, frustrated with a lack of progress over one of his top priorities as he heads into a tough reelection campaign, according to current and former administration officials.
Kushner convenes biweekly meetings in the West Wing, where he questions an array of government officials about progress on the wall, including updates on contractor data, precisely where it will be built and how funding is being spent. He also shares and explains the president's demands with the group, according to the officials familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations.
The president's son-in-law and senior adviser is pressing U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite the process of taking over private land needed for the project as the government seeks to meet Trump's goal of erecting 450 miles of barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border by the end of 2020. More than 800 filings to seize private property will need to be made in the coming months if the government is going to succeed, officials aid.
Kushner has told other West Wing officials he is in charge of the wall, according to aides, and that it is paramount to Trump that at least 400 miles be built by Election Day. "The point is to get as much built in the next year so, so the president can say in the face of intense, almost demented opposition he has made reasonable progress," said Mark Krikorian, director of the Center for Immigration Studies, a Washington think tank that seeks to restrict immigration and supports many of Trump's policies.
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Published 8:51 pm EST, Monday, November 25, 2019
"More than 800 filings to seize private property will need to be made in the coming months if the government is going to succeed"
Phoenix61
(16,999 posts)I cant think of anything they could do that is more likely to help the Dems.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)It could get interesting when they come to grab ranchers' land.
Zoonart
(11,844 posts)IronLionZion
(45,410 posts)it's onwards to his next job on the wall
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)The dude is truly multitasking.
IronLionZion
(45,410 posts)Easily solved both problems.
JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)As I recall, he has been assigned to everything from the opioid crisis to peace in the Middle East. That was when he wasn't busy on criminal justice reform and liaison work in Mexico, China, and the Muslim community.
Fact is, he's been sitting on his ass playing online solitaire and watching porn, just like he was on election day. Putting a Kushner in charge of the border wall sounds like another way of giving up. I don't think working is Prince Jared's thing.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)is in Jared's future? With all the credentials he has been assigned, who has more experience? All this, without a Top Security Clearance. How talented this guy is.
JohnnyRingo
(18,623 posts)He couldn't win an election for county comptroller.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)the wall doesn't have to be well built, or even built at all--there just needs to be enough "construction" to fool the MAGAts.
jared seems capable of overseeing something that doesn't actually have to work.
mjvpi
(1,388 posts)olddad65
(599 posts)SamKnause
(13,091 posts)I wish no ill to those who do not support republicans.
If you voted for republicans, you deserve everything coming your way.
If this seems harsh, I can not help that.
Republicans are the enemy.
They are destroying this country.
They are the greatest threat this country has ever faced.
patricia92243
(12,595 posts)Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)tRump's personal accounts - overseas of course. I wonder who keeps track of the $100 MILION dollars Ivanka received, to promote women in business?. The gop HAS to investigate Hunter Biden, while the tRump family loots the treasury with no oversight whatsoever.
Maribelle
(4,783 posts)in the past we've already paid to recruit and train builders such as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and in the future will continue to pay for the benefits crediting the time they spent building the wall. Good lord, the lying Trump company gets worse every day.
Proud Liberal Dem
(24,402 posts)will Trump give this unelected dudebro? Also, never minding the fact that Trump's use of funds to build his vanity wall was never even authorized.
keithbvadu2
(36,731 posts)Jared-of-all-trades
dhill926
(16,334 posts)Beacool
(30,247 posts)We were once a great nation, that may not have been loved by everybody, but at least we were respected. Now we are becoming a banana republic led by a mental midget with delusions of grandeur. The Trumps and the Kushners are mediocrities who would not have amounted to much without their fathers' money. That includes Donald Sr. As for Jared, he was a below par student who only got into Harvard because his ex-con father "donated" $2.5M to the university. And these are the grifters leading our nation. Pathetic!!!
Maxheader
(4,371 posts)That's what big corps do with people that look good in a suit but are worthless
in their position...Slide them over without pissing their promoters off and other
people..