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Trump on spending deal: 'We're building the wall anyway'
The Hill via MSN ^ | 11 Feb 2019 | Jordan Fabian

Posted on 02/11/2019 7:59:06 PM PST by Alas Babylon!

President Trump on Monday said he would build his long-desired wall along the southern border regardless of whether Congress approves funding for it. "Just so you know, we're building the wall anyway," Trump said at a campaign rally in El Paso, Texas, which sits directly across the Rio Grande from Mexico. Trump spoke shortly after lawmakers said they had reached a funding deal in principle to avoid another government shutdown set to begin on Saturday. The deal includes some money for barriers along the border. The president said he would not sign an agreement that cuts the number of detention beds used to house immigrants caught living illegally in the U.S. "If we cut detention space, we are cutting loose dangerous criminals into our countries," Trump said. "I will never sign a bill that forces the mass release of criminals into this country." Democrats appear to have dropped their demand to dramatically slash the number of beds, but the measure does not include Trump's full request for 52,000 beds.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: budgetdeal; deemargo; elchapo; elpaso; jordanfabian; maga; tedcruz; texas; thehill; thehillary; theshill; trump; trumpwall; wall
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To: txrefugee

WE BUILD THE WALL Be sure to watch the Town Hall segment.
Former Rep Tom Trancredo has a lot to say.

http://www.webuildthewall.us


61 posted on 02/12/2019 6:45:11 AM PST by GailA (GET OVER IT DONALD TRUMP IS PRESIDENT, SNOWFLAKES.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

I’m disappointed that he’s still talking about it. Actions speak louder than words.


62 posted on 02/12/2019 6:46:34 AM PST by grania ("We're all just pawns in their game")
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To: ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas

The 16500 number never happened and won’t happen. 40,000 beds is the congress approved number.


63 posted on 02/12/2019 7:06:40 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Alas Babylon!

While I’d hope that this isn’t what he does, here’s one possibility... if he takes the money offered, that’s a lot less he has to take from other sources for the rest.


64 posted on 02/12/2019 7:16:02 AM PST by alancarp (George Orwell was an optimist.)
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To: tomkat
Won’t surprise me if he puts up a billion of his own money for it.
Not a chance. It would be silly. He has already lost a significant amount of net worth in the last 2-3 years.
65 posted on 02/12/2019 7:56:52 AM PST by Tennessean4Bush (An optimist believes we live in the best of all possible worlds. A pessimist fears this is true.)
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To: Alas Babylon!

If the President DOES sign a ‘compromise’ bill of some kind, I’ll first want to know what’s in it. And then it’s a question of what is going to happen next in this war for our country.

In Congress, we just don’t have the proverbial boots on the ground for a proverbial frontal assault, despite what we were howling for. That’s partially our own fault.

So we have to use different tactics, many of which may be distasteful for straightforward persons like us, but if we get the wall in the end, they’ll be worth it.


66 posted on 02/12/2019 8:00:28 AM PST by Luircin
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To: Alas Babylon!

The national emergency that people are touting is one weapon that can be used, yes.

But it’s a very all-or-nothing gambit. If we use it and then get defeated at that point, there will be NO wall, because we’ll have lost a massive point of leverage, and the globalists in Congress will know that they can simply block the wall with impunity.

Using it as a threat on the other hand has forced them to come to the table, and it seems that we are slowly forcing them to bend.

Now’s not the time to go all wobbly!


67 posted on 02/12/2019 8:03:07 AM PST by Luircin
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To: Alas Babylon!

the GOP proved itself to be nothing more than
a pathological party of chronic LIARS and
Romney=driven backstabbers.


68 posted on 02/12/2019 8:04:40 AM PST by Diogenesis ( WWG1WGA)
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To: trebb

There has to be a reason so many concern trolls are always front and center.

***

Until recently, they got paid by the government to ‘counter Russian interference.’ Thanks lame duck Congress and Obama.

But the money just dried up a month ago, so we’ll see if it was astroturfing or not.


69 posted on 02/12/2019 8:05:07 AM PST by Luircin
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To: BobL
but he sure gives the Democrats bragging rights.

If the Wall is built, let the Dems spin it all they want. We will be safer. Our laws will be better enforced. The Dems say anything anyway.

70 posted on 02/12/2019 8:07:11 AM PST by Teacher317 (We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men)
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To: Trump.Deplorable
Legalize weed for the full wall

Might as well toss America in the trash heap of history then. Destruction of our culture. ( don’t try to short shrift my knowledge of these things. I’ve been to the big city and seen the elephant…even went to Woodstock in 1969… been there done that and have seen the damage it has wrought).

71 posted on 02/12/2019 8:40:39 AM PST by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you .)
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To: Alas Babylon!
I see stories on Yahoo and AOL already gloating that the new budget deal is a pittance compared to the minimum President Trump said he would accept. I just hope if PDJT decides to sign this legislation anyway to avoid another shutdown he immediately issues an emergency order to build out the entire wall.

We absolutely need that wall immediately to keep the caravan scum from getting across the border where they can then make bogus asylum claims. There's no hope for any change to our insane asylum laws in the foreseeable future.

72 posted on 02/12/2019 9:15:35 AM PST by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: Alas Babylon!

If it could have been built without Congress’ approval all along, why wasn’t it?


73 posted on 02/12/2019 9:32:47 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

Brilliant!

Not just ‘done’, but we’d be finished.

Maybe you should spend less time on fortnite and read some books.


74 posted on 02/12/2019 9:36:32 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: Luircin

I have confidence that the builder of skycrapers knows the risks.

If Congress already authorizes a third of the deal, then they can hardly complain about the rest.

He’s laid the groundwork for that with the SOTU, 52% approval ratings, and the Dems’ Green New Deal in tatters.


75 posted on 02/12/2019 9:46:35 AM PST by poconopundit
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To: Alas Babylon!

Yeah, sure we are.......


76 posted on 02/12/2019 10:07:40 AM PST by heights
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To: Alas Babylon!

And as I read this, Trump is on OAN saying the Dems want to let criminals in an he’ll never sign such a bill.....hope the concern trolls are paying attention.


77 posted on 02/12/2019 10:17:12 AM PST by trebb (Don't howl about illegal leeches while not donating to FR - it's hypocritical.)
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To: MichaelCorleone

It would eliminate their biggest voter draw

It would eliminate the stoner vote, they would sit home get high on election day, not show up and vote for democrats.

If democrats oppose this, it would harm them with the stoners that vote for them only because of legal weed platform

It is a double edge sword against themselves.

We would win either way


78 posted on 02/12/2019 10:31:52 AM PST by Trump.Deplorable
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Well, yeah.

79 posted on 02/12/2019 7:44:39 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: Alas Babylon!

80 posted on 02/13/2019 7:47:29 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Stop Medieval Diseases With A Medieval Wall: Illegal migration is leading to a wave of outbreaks!!!!)
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