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Budi

(15,325 posts)
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:36 PM Oct 2021

Biden admin has canceled the remaining construction contracts for Trump's border wall




"The Biden admin has canceled the remaining construction contracts for Trump's border wall."


From the article:
Biden administration cancels remaining Laredo, Rio Grande Valley contracts for Trump's border wall, angering Republican lawmakers
Kevin Shalvey Oct 9, 2021,
https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-border-wall-contracts-texas-laredo-rio-grande-biden-admin-2021-10?amp&__twitter_impression=true

The Biden administration on Friday canceled contracts for border wall construction in Texas.
The cancelled contracts were in the Rio Grande Valley and Laredo areas.


Angry Republican Tom Cotton weiged in, " The move "isn't going to solve the Biden Border Crisis," Sen. Tom Cotton said.

#StayMadTom
LOL. 😁
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Biden admin has canceled the remaining construction contracts for Trump's border wall (Original Post) Budi Oct 2021 OP
THANK YOU JOE!!! Wall was a dum thing & shouldn't have been started. nt napi21 Oct 2021 #1
Is that why Gov Abbott just commissioned more Red State Natl Guard?, (NDakota) Budi Oct 2021 #4
boy ,don't the dotard look presidential ? I'm glad he & magic Sharpie are gone !! monkeyman1 Oct 2021 #7
Good malaise Oct 2021 #2
You mad, Sen. Cotton? gratuitous Oct 2021 #3
K & R to that! 🥂 Budi Oct 2021 #5
Cotton can make some money from the wall... keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #14
I'm "mad", but Tom Cotton can rightfully go fuck himself. madinmaryland Oct 2021 #15
Can we sell what's there as scrap metal? Totally Tunsie Oct 2021 #6
The scrappers are watching it NOW! Mopar151 Oct 2021 #9
What a fu*king waste of $$ mnhtnbb Oct 2021 #8
I read yesterday the contractors are still getting 5 Mill a day packman Oct 2021 #10
The best thing about is the kick in the gut that Trump feels! lunatica Oct 2021 #11
Renegotiate the contract to a different location... Mar-A-Lago. keithbvadu2 Oct 2021 #12
Since Tom Cotton doesn't like it, it has to be fabulous? Brainfodder Oct 2021 #13
How many years does this bumpersticker date back to? UTUSN Oct 2021 #16
good rockfordfile Oct 2021 #17
Twitter reply: Rhiannon12866 Oct 2021 #18
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
4. Is that why Gov Abbott just commissioned more Red State Natl Guard?, (NDakota)
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:53 PM
Oct 2021

Maybe he'll form a human wall along the border where Trump's wall would have been.

I bet Dotard is mad!
(Cool chess move there, President Biden.)


gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. You mad, Sen. Cotton?
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 02:50 PM
Oct 2021

Why don't you and, say, 47 of your Senate Republican colleagues pool your money and pay those contracts since you think it's so effective? The rest of us don't want to continue throwing good money after bad.

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
14. Cotton can make some money from the wall...
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:37 PM
Oct 2021

How to Build Trump’s Wall - Privatize It

Republicans have often found a way to tax people surreptitiously by privatizing many public works projects to corporations rather than have gov’t pay for it. A fee/toll is a tax under another name.

The corporations/investors are granted a multi-year license with a guaranteed profit.

This could also be done with Trump’s Wall with Mexico.

Corporations/investors front the money to build it and they will be paid by Mexico.

It gives republicans a chance to save the gov’t money by investing in it and show their confidence in Trump’s word that Mexico will pay for it .

No gov’t backed bonds.

No cost to the gov’t,,, no need for taxes,,, profit for the patriotic investors who believe in Trump.

Win win all around.

Even Trump can show his patriotism and shrewd business savvy by investing in it.

 

packman

(16,296 posts)
10. I read yesterday the contractors are still getting 5 Mill a day
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 05:10 PM
Oct 2021

and still making/stockpiling that fence shit along the border. May not be being built , but still $ going out on contract obligations.

keithbvadu2

(36,775 posts)
12. Renegotiate the contract to a different location... Mar-A-Lago.
Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:33 PM
Oct 2021

Renegotiate the contract to a different location... Mar-A-Lago.

Use eminent domain laws to take a ten foot swath inside the perimeter of Mar-A-Lago and build the wall there to keep illegals out of there.

Trump has used illegals (RW term) at his golf clubs.

He has several properties that could use protection.

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