Posted on 02/13/2019 6:55:35 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Yes, the compromise $1.38 million for 55 miles of border wall construction offered by the House and Senate conference committee is an insult to anyone who cares about border security. Nonetheless, President Trump should take it, let Chuck and Nancy crow and Ann Coulter rail, and then get moving on adding the many other sources of funds available to him to construct hundreds more miles of border barrier at the highest-priority locations identified by the Border Patrol.
Another partial shutdown of the federal government would do nothing to prod the Democrats into offering more money. They think they have won and will not budge.
Mick Mulvaney, perhaps the smartest person in D.C., the man who personally foiled Elizabeth Warren's CFPB with adept bureaucratic maneuvers and has moved on to be the budget director while still heading CFPB, has identified more than enough money available in various unspent pools of money.
"We'll take as much money as you can give us and then we'll go off and find the money someplace else, legally, in order to secure that southern barrier, but this is going to get built with or without Congress," Mulvaney said on "Fox News."
"The president is going to build the wall," he declared. ...
"Any president can do this," Mulvaney said. "There are certain funds of money that he can get to without declaring a national emergency and other funds that he can only get to after declaring a national emergency."
The guilty verdict against El Chapo has revived the possibility of acquiring some of the alleged $14 billion in assets he reaped from the drug trade. Obviously, not all of it is available, but a sum that large inevitably leaves electronic footprints in the global financial system.
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I agree, use these funds to help finish the wall and access other funds as the project continues.
Lifson notes:
Democrats will attempt the usual lawfare approach to tie up this presidential initiative in court. I hope a brilliant suggestion I saw yesterday, but cannot remember the source of, is followed. Let a friendly governor of a state in the Fifth Circuit (perhaps Texas) mount a quick lawsuit so the most conservative appeals court in the nation will affirm the president’s right to spend the money.
Am I the only person who remembers that President Obama came up with $1.7 billion to send to the mullahs of Iran as part of his JCPOA without a congressional appropriation? Presidents have amazing executive discretion to spend money without specific authorization from Congress. I don’t recall Chuck and Nancy complaining about that spending without an appropriation.
does this deal not include a reduction in beds for housing these law breakers?
if it does include it. no deal.
Trump would have to kick the overflow out into our streets
No One has seen what else the rats have put in the deal. Supposedly 1,000
pages long. YOU know they put other garbage in the deal.
Build as much as you can NOW.
It is more than just money. It establishes that Congress agrees the wall is necessary. It will make court challenges tougher.
In addition to legal table setting it establish a clear political wall between two parties. The GOP is now forced into choosing between the wall and big business.
With the cancelation of the high speed railway between L.A. and SF; California owes $3.5B they refuse to return to all of us federal taxpayers. Newsome say he won’t return it to President Trump like it’s Trump’s money or something.
The feds should restrict all funding to CA until it has recouped all $3.5B CA owes us.
This ain’t railroad science folks.
Yes, take this money, then get more.
Demonstrate that it works, and it will, and then GET MORE (MOAR?) money.
He will have even more of a position to ‘beat’ the dems with.
I have heard it provides additional beds.
They didn’t cancel. They just reduced the route
If Trump signs the bad border funding deal into law, there will be something in the bill that negates his ability to use the present legal powers he now has to build the wall or barrier. Even if there isn’t such explicit language in the new bill, a dishonest liberal judge will rule that because the new bill addresses the border issue, and it is the latest expression by Congress regarding the border, it carves out the border issue from the present laws that allow Trump to take action to protect the country. Trump should not sign the bill.
PDJT gets things done. He’s cobbled together BIG MONEY for other construction projects; I trust that he’ll do the same with our much-needed wall.
Best. Election. Ever. EVER! MAGA! :)
ok. last I heard it lowered the number of existing beds.
PDJT ought to take the present money and keep on quietly slicing the salami to get the rest.
Forget it, let the government shutdown.
If the Republicans throw in with the democrats and override a veto then Trump didn't cave and the pussies in the Senate did. It makes him that much better off going into 2020.
This is exactly what I said to Mr. GG2 yesterday. Take what you can get from Congress and get the rest from unallocated funds.
Yup, it’s a trap.
Dead wrong.
Leave the debate to people who have paid attention to whats in the bill, or admit that you are an open borders shill.
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