Posted on 03/30/2018 11:39:45 AM PDT by NobleFree
Thanks for the description. It is great to know that some folks on this forum don’t think the Harry Potter is going to be contracted to wave his wand and make it all appear!
Well said......
I’d like to see low energy Jeb try to get over that fence.
If Border Patrol actually protects our borders, how did we end up with a country full of illegal aliens?
I will pass on Border Patrol’s opinion.
First let me explain something that the average person is not aware of about congressional authorizations. They are for specific items.
Let’s say you are awarded a Design and Build Contract for a B-52 Maintenance Hanger Complex consisting of two Hangers of 66,800 square feet total.
If by accident you design and build your hangers and in the middle of construction someone points out that the hangers total 66,900 square feet. You will be asked to make the hangers each have 50 square feet that are unusable and inaccessible because to complete them otherwise you are exceeding the congressional authorization. A few square feet less to fit on the property for good and valid engineering or safety concerns: that’s okay, but to exceed the authorization arbitrarily, that would be outside the authorization.
Now you can use maintenance funds for maintenance almost anywhere. But those have budgets and set limits and they don’t get used to build something “not maintenance” character.
If you have a prior congressionally authorized area where a high steel bollard wall is authorized to be built by Congress and in an appropriation the money is released, if you are a proactive President you can release that contract and in three months be getting that underway. If you are Trump you can do it in three days, which is what happened here.
Now if the rag-tag marching band of immigrants that are in the news are really marshaled together by CNN and Soros and get to approaching the border, and there they start tearing down fence, the Corps of Engineers could be tasked with putting up an emergency barrier of any sort they have available and it could be of a pretty good size but not 300 miles long. Once underway, the Executive Branch or the President through channels would need to report such emergency work and explain if this was done under the War Power’s provisions or how and ask for the replacement of the money to whatever fund hat-in-hand.
In our Constitution, the lower house of the Congress is the sole authorized source of funding and taxing. Additional approvals happen in the Senate and then in bill signing or an over-ride.
Now, during a Declaration of War, authorizations are written with very broad sweeping descriptions. You might have an authorization to build Airfields and Related Structures and Barracks for Aircraft access the United States Western Mountain Ranges. Then you could build eight facilities or ten if such was unspecified.
The BP can’t do their job if underfunded, undermanned, under-weaponed, and shat on by the fedgov. Which they were under 0bola.
It’s not the BP at fault, it’s the commiepuke progs
“now Congress has to act.”
Some on FR would have you and I believe that the President has somehow 3D-chessed his way to funding the wall now:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3642259/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3642191/posts
2018/02/21
U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers have started construction to replace fencing at the U.S.-Mexico border in downtown Calexico, Calif., with a 30-foot-high, bollard-style wall, according to a press release issued Wednesday.
The 2.25-mile project will stretch from the Calexico West Port of Entry to beyond the Gran Plaza Outlets and includes approximately 2.25 miles of all-weather roads.
The current barrier was erected in the 1990s and is comprised of recycled scraps of metal and old landing mats.
CBP spokesman Carlos Diaz told the Washington Examiner on Wednesday the project was funded by fiscal 2017 appropriations, which will also go toward replacement projects in San Diego, Calif., and Santa Teresa, N.M., as well as 35 gates in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.
I read the first one with the article by John Salisbury. I don’t think Ryan and McConnell have the character to defend his actions if he takes the route described, but who knows.
As Barry proved, you can get away with a lot if you wish.
I think that having some choking spittle flying out of Chuck Schumer’s on air interviews would go a long way to making the nation happy. And and Nancy looks about one mad dash away from a cardio vascular event, so happy times all around if this starts to bear fruit prior to November.
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