Posted on 03/18/2019 5:43:40 PM PDT by BeauBo
The affected Congress critters will squeal like stuck pigs and then quietly replace the money for their pet projects. Unlike airplanes that can fly anywhere, buildings, once built, stay in the same Congressional district.
“The affected Congress critters will squeal like stuck pigs and then quietly replace the money for their pet projects.”
No 2019 projects will be touched, allowing Congress to re-fund anything they want by 2020. All part of the negotiation.
BUILD. THE. WALL! Mr. President, you campaigned on that issue!
And a whole lot more from the sale of our properties in Germany when we pull out the last remaining troops there.
Here is a link to the list of possible candidates:
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The timing is perfect for Trump. The construction is ongoing in 2019 and the majority slated for 2020. A vote for Trump is a vote to complete the wall. Not a promise of a wall, but the completion of an ongoing construction project. Gotta love it.
Why do we have a base in Bulgaria? What “national interests” could we possibly have there?
Whatever it takes to get the wall built.
Speaking on that scale, they can throw me a few “pennies” and I’ll be stoked.
lol
I’d buy myself a Viper and I’d buy a track and just go nuts! :)
“No new border wall has been erected where there wasn’t a barrier before...”
That might be a critical piece of information. I’m not sure on the dates of the new wall construction, but they showed some before photos of a 15-foot (?) fence/wall that looked easy enough to climb over; and the new 30-foot(?) wall with the vertical steel slats.
But yeah - nothing near what was talked about on the campaign trail.
howling does congress have to try to override the veto?
I believe that the House is supposed to vote on overriding the veto on 26 March.
When that vote fails, its over.
“Why do we have a base in Bulgaria?”
You don’t want the Battle of the Bulge to go for naught do you?
do you know if they have time limits on voting to override. i can’t find any?
Heck at this rate there will be money to start hunting up the
Visa overstays which are about as many as illegal crossers.
“No new border wall has been erected where there wasn’t a barrier before...”
Replacing some of the old barrier was determined to stop more traffic, than building where none was before.
San Diego is a good example. Remember when the caravan was rushing the border, and masses of riot police were firing tear gas? Well the weak barrier there that they could climb, has now been replaced with the kind of 18 foot bollards that they could not. Now a second layer of 30 foot bollards has begun to go in behind the 18 footers (1 1/2 miles of which will be new, rather than replacement - later this year)
The first new miles, where no barrier at all now exists, was contracted to start in February in the Rio Grande Valley. New restrictions were included in FY 2019 appropriations bill, which required that contract to be modified - so the first construction of totally new miles has been delayed until April or May.
So far, the Trump Administration has completed construction of 38 miles (top of the line stuff), and has over 80 more miles now under construction or on contract. The FY19 money is targeted for about 300 more miles (the real main battle of controlling the border), and the FY20 money for the final 700 (costs are much lower in flat desert, than in the Rio Grande Valley floodplain).
Cut Rep and Senate pensions.
“do you know if they have time limits on voting to override. i can’t find any?”
I don’t know of a specific deadline, but definitely no votes are binding once a new Congress is seated (every two years). So if something does not become law by then, it must be re-submitted again, as a new piece of legislation.
The constitution does not specify a certain deadline, so the House and Senate custom governs the time frame. Typically, it is considered pretty quickly after the veto is received. If it fails either body, it dies, and the other does not vote on it.
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