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Far short of his request, less than 10% of the $18 billion he wanted. And even though he visited those prototypes...he is prohibited from using ANY of them. All will be fencing. And guess who's paying for it....NOT Mexico, but US taxpayers. More winning!!!
Border wall: The bill provides $1.6 billion for barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border, but with some serious strings attached. Of the total, $251 million is earmarked specifically for “secondary fencing” near San Diego, where fencing is already in place; $445 million is for no more than 25 miles of “levee fencing”; $196 million is for “primary pedestrian fencing” in the Rio Grande Valley; $445 million is for the replacement of existing fencing in that area; and the rest is for planning, design and technology — not for wall construction. The biggest catch is this: The barriers authorized to be built under the act must be “operationally effective designs” already deployed as of last March, meaning none of President Trump’s big, beautiful wall prototypes can be built.
Far short of his request, less than 10% of the $18 billion he wanted. And even though he visited those prototypes...he is prohibited from using ANY of them. All will be fencing. And guess who's paying for it....NOT Mexico, but US taxpayers. More winning!!!
I wish they had put in more money for detention center beds. As it is now, the illegals get picked up and then released into the general public while awaiting hearings. They get to work, get drivers licenses and, of course, crank out kids that then become a burden on us. Lock 'em up pending their hearings!
WOW! you must be VERY rich to claim $1.6 billion is "very little".
It's less than 10% of what he asked for.
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