The Great Wall of Trump

[PartyOf5]

So much better dancer than May.
Why does the left have all the best moves?

Because they spend all their time on distractions and none doing their jobs.

[pineapplemike]

High court allows use of Pentagon funds for border wall
https://apnews.com/5d893d388c254c7fa83a1570112ae90e

The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to tap billions of dollars in Pentagon funds to build sections of a border wall with Mexico.

The court’s five conservative justices gave the administration the greenlight to begin work on four contracts it has awarded using Defense Department money. Funding for the projects had been frozen by lower courts. The court’s four liberal justices wouldn’t have allowed construction to start.

The justices’ decision to lift the freeze on the money allows Trump to make progress on a major 2016 campaign promise heading into his race for a second term. Trump tweeted after the announcement: “Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!”

A trial court initially froze the funds in May and an appeals court kept that freeze in place earlier this month. The freeze had prevented the government from tapping approximately $2.5 billion in Defense Department money to replace existing sections of barrier in Arizona, California and New Mexico with more robust fencing.

The case the Supreme Court ruled on began after the 35-day partial government shutdown that started in December of last year. Trump ended the shutdown in February after Congress gave him approximately $1.4 billion in border wall funding. But the amount was far less than the $5.7 billion he was seeking, and Trump then declared a national emergency to take cash from other government accounts to use to construct sections of wall.

The money Trump identified includes $3.6 billion from military construction funds, $2.5 billion in Defense Department money and $600 million from the Treasury Department’s asset forfeiture fund.

The case before the Supreme Court involved just the $2.5 billion in Defense Department funds, which the administration says will be used to construct more than 100 miles of fencing. One project would replace 46 miles of barrier in New Mexico for $789 million. Another would replace 63 miles in Arizona for $646 million. The other two projects in California and Arizona are smaller.

[StCapps]

Build That Wall.
Hurray for the SCOTUS.

[C-Mag]

I'd actually like to see all these small wall efforts to be done in one state. Take your pick, NM or AZ would be good choices. Let's see the affects when one state doesn't have direct illegal traffic across the southern border.

[The Conservative]

I'd actually like to see all these small wall efforts to be done in one state. Take your pick, NM or AZ would be good choices. Let's see the affects when one state doesn't have direct illegal traffic across the southern border.

How about we just build a wall around California?

[C-Mag]

I'd actually like to see all these small wall efforts to be done in one state. Take your pick, NM or AZ would be good choices. Let's see the affects when one state doesn't have direct illegal traffic across the southern border.

How about we just build a wall around California?

Here we go San Andreas, Daddy needs a new West Coast

[Montegriffo]

Build That Wall.
Hurray for the SCOTUS.

Don't you mean
"build that metaphorical wall"

[StCapps]

Build That Wall.
Hurray for the SCOTUS.

Don't you mean
"build that metaphorical wall"

All that matters is border security, and a wall across the entire border is not the way to do that. Parts of the border could use a wall, build it there, don't build it in places where other measures would do a better job. The Wall sells the rest of the package to the base, the reason he chose a wall is because it's easy to picture in the mind and one ups the other Republicans who were merely calling for a fence.

[The Conservative]

Build That Wall.
Hurray for the SCOTUS.

Don't you mean
"build that metaphorical wall"

Nope. The wall will be built, and where it’s not, don’t expect it to be easy to cross.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Guys it’s only $10m per mile of fence.

Goddamn those western ranchers must be trillionaires...