Democrats fail to block Trump border wall in defense bill
House Democrats tried but failed Friday to block spending on President Trump's proposed border wall under the annual defense bill.
Rep. Michelle Lujan Grisham, D-N.M., pressed for a House floor vote that would have added a prohibition on any Pentagon spending to build the wall. She did so at the end of debate on the National Defense Authorization Act, and her move was a protest against the House GOP decision to strip language out of that bill that would have prevented the NDAA from authorizing work on the border wall.
"The only way this body can guarantee that Trump cannot use Department of Defense funds to construct the border wall is to put that prohibition in the bill explicitly," Grisham said on the floor.
Can't get funding from Congress to build a border.
Fuck it, go around them and use money appropriation for defense spending to build it. Why not, the military should be spending lots of money protecting our borders anyways and if building a wall is going to help that then by all means they should start as soon as possible.
And to all the critics out there that are going to say this will take money away from protecting our soldiers. A small potion of the money is actually spent on troops the rest goes to maintenance, R&D and welfare for the military industrial complex. Trump can easily take a few billion away from the blood suckers in the defense industry to build the wall without impacting the military.
All and all this is just another check mark on promises fulfilled to the American people.
I wonder if Trump's wall will be used to keep people from leaving the states.
Probably not if we still have guns.
Go Trump!
And they are going to keep failing, hard!
Wall will help combat gangs/drugs coming over and even if we have to pay for it it saves us money on many problems relating to gangs and drugs. I read the numbers somewhere before but too tired to find it right now hehe.
Jeez, it's like pulling teeth to get these things DONE! Trump has to hold these clowns in the swamp and take away their summer vacation if that's what it takes to kill Obamacare and cut taxes. If they won't pass those - then rescind the healthcare tax and start slashing government agencies. See if they don't start paying attention then...
At first, I did not want a WALL- NOOOOO Don't Lock Me In. Now I Want A Wall- Wow- How Fast Can it Be Built- If We Hire All The Unemployed Men? Or are they going to use a giant 3-d printer?