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struggle4progress

(118,278 posts)
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 09:02 PM Jan 2018

Wants $18 billion for border wall

By REBECCA SHABAD
CBS NEWS
January 5, 2018, 1:59 PM

... The WSJ report said that the $18 billion would go toward 700 miles of new replacement barriers, expanding the current 654 miles of barrier to nearly 1,000 miles. It's unclear if this funding would be part of any governmentwide spending package that's currently being negotiated in Congress.

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, reacted to the report in a letter to House Democrats Friday, "This is alarming. We must all speak out."

In recent days, <Cousin Itt> has said that any legislative deal to protect so-called "Dreamers" and make the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program permanent must "secure the wall." The president tweeted last Friday: "The Democrats have been told, and fully understand, that there can be no DACA without the desperately needed WALL at the Southern Border and an END to the horrible Chain Migration & ridiculous Lottery System of Immigration etc." He added: "We must protect our Country at all cost!" ...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-wants-18-billion-from-congress-for-border-wall/

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Wants $18 billion for border wall (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2018 OP
Pay it! Pay it! Pay it! Pay it! edbermac Jan 2018 #1
can't we just lock him on a padded cell and tell him it's the wall? rurallib Jan 2018 #2
Trump should set up a GoFundMe account left-of-center2012 Jan 2018 #3

rurallib

(62,406 posts)
2. can't we just lock him on a padded cell and tell him it's the wall?
Fri Jan 5, 2018, 10:01 PM
Jan 2018

he seems to think that what he experiences is what is going on in the whole world.
He is way stupid enough to believe that the wall had been built.

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