Winning!
Encore!
That is actually pretty fast...
That is actually pretty fast...
After running her mouth about “failed Trump” in February, Coulter hasn’t said a word about the wall in her column.
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2019-02-20.html
She never apologized about being so wrong on Mittens. She won’t apologize to the president about being so dreadfully wrong about him either.
Lots of other sites with info......
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The Army Corps of Engineers is the executive agent for DOD’s border wall
construction. In April and May, the Corps awarded about $2.5 billion in
projects to build a portion of the wall that will span 129 miles in New Mexico,
Arizona and California, Hoffman said.
As of this week, virtually all of that $2.5 billion has been obligated and is
on contract, and officials expect to have the remaining $3 million obligated
before the end of this month, he said.
https://www.defense.gov/explore/story/Article/1965907/dod-spokesman-provides-border-wall-update/
Money or technology wasn’t a barrier, not for over 100 years.
There was only zero POLITICAL WILL.
That’s faster than I can lay cable.
Seriously, good news.
Somebody tell Ann Coulter before she starts pulling her hair out.
Just think — about 25 miles more will be built by my birthday next month.]
Brings a lump to my throat.
MAGA!
Democrats are running on the platform of Wall bulldozers.
Military Times is no longer published by Gannet, but by Regent.
Q: Hi. Travis Tritten, Bloomberg Government. I wanted to follow up on the border construction and the $3.6 billion in 2808 money. Do you know when that will be fully contracted out? And then, do you have a timeline for when both pots of money will — construction from both pots of money will be fully completed?
MR. HOFFMAN: I don’t have a timeline for you on that. I — the — right now, we’re — we’re getting the first of those contracts ready to go. As was previously mentioned, we have a property from DOI that needed to be transferred over for — for a number of those, so we’ve got to work through that process.
And it’s going to take, you know, months to get that, as I mentioned, the money for the 28 — 284 projects came on — came over in — I believe in — in May and we’ve just completed that process now. So it’s — it’s going to be a few months but our goal is that by the end of next year, we will have completed over 100 — 450 miles of wall construction all told across the entire federal government.
What you’re going to see is there will be a — a — kind of a — it’s a — it’s a bubble; it’ll take a little while as we do the planning, we buy the property, we do the environmental assessments and all of the other things we — we — the assessment we need to do, and then the — you’ll see a rapid increase in the amount.
Right now, we’re at a pace of about a mile a day and we’ll see that — that continue to go up, so.
Q: You said 450?
MR. HOFFMAN: 450 is, I think, the administration’s goal for the end of next year.
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Q: ... follow up. You said that there’s a mile a day in construction. You mean the administration, the government as a whole? Has DOD broken ground on any projects?
MR. HOFFMAN: So the — they’re — understanding that the — the executive agent for much of the construction is the Army Corps of Engineers. So when you say the DOD, the Army ...
Q: ... pots of money, the 284, 2808. Have any projects gone on under that ...
MR. HOFFMAN: I can get an answer for you in about 10 minutes, but I’m — I’m almost certain that on the 284 that we have started projects out of those monies, but I — the money’s in the contracts for all of them, but I believe we’ve broken ground on those. I can get an update for you pretty quickly after this.
— direct transcript from DoD
Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Jonathan R. Hoffman and Joint Staff Spokesperson Air Force Col. Patrick S. Ryder Defense Department Press Briefing
SEPT. 19, 2019
I am afraid that the Pentagon spokesman misspoke.
Today, we are running at about a half mile per day. The day before yesterday, the real subject matter expert, LTG Semonite, Commanding General of the Army Corps of Engineers, said that we emplacing 270 bollard panels per day. They are 8 feet each, so that is a little over 2 miles per week based on a five day a week schedule, close to three miles a week on a seven day a week schedule.
The existing contracts should get us to a mile a day, once all the projects break ground, and all the crews are working, over the next 2-3 months. More contracts are coming (lots) when that $3.6 billion in Military Construction (MILCON) gets on contract. We will likely peak at something like two miles per day, sometime next year, if the MILCON does not get held up in court.
It is top of the line wall system, going where it is most needed - making a big difference where it goes. San Diego, the biggest city on the border, has already seen a 90% drop, and they still have about four miles left to do. All of the remaining illegal crossers there, have been coming through that gap. All of them. The new double barrier system there has been stopping all crossers cold. It is on track to complete as scheduled, in January.
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