Tag: Trump’s wall

Congress Stands Up to Trump, Kind of

Buck Banks

“No, it’s not oversight hearings into…well…anything. And it’s certainly not a subpoena, legislation to protect the Mueller investigation or the rejection of his Supreme Court nominee. … But the GOP congressional leadership’s decision last week not to give Donald Trump the $5 billion he wants for a wall between the United States and Mexico before the election and then to make it much harder for him to veto the legislation that codifies that decision was the closest House and Senate Republicans have come since Trump was elected to publicly giving him their collective middle finger.”

— Stan Collender

Limbaugh Says Trump Caving on Wall

Buck Banks

“I’m not happy to have to pass this on. I’m very, very troubled to have to pass this on. And I want to say at the outset that I hope my interpretation is wrong, and I hope this is not the case. But it looks like, from here, right here, right now, it looks like President Trump is caving on his demand for a measly $1 billion in the budget for his wall on the border with Mexico.”

— Rush Limbaugh, on his radio show.

Trump Has Only $20 Million for Wall

Buck Banks

$20 million

President Trump’s “promise to use existing funds to begin immediate construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border has hit a financial roadblock,” according to a document seen by Reuters. “The rapid start of construction, promised throughout Trump’s campaign and in an executive order issued in January on border security, was to be financed, according to the White House, with ‘existing funds and resources’ of the Department of Homeland Security. But so far, the DHS has identified only $20 million that can be re-directed to the multi-billion-dollar project.”

Trump’s ‘Wall’ Would Cost $21.6 Billion

Buck Banks

$21.6 billion

Cost of Donald Trump’s “wall” along the U.S.-Mexico border, which would take more than three years to construct, based on a U.S. Department of Homeland Security internal report seen by Reuters. “The report’s estimated price-tag is much higher than a $12-billion figure cited by Trump in his campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.”