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"The Biden admin has canceled the remaining construction contracts for Trump's border wall."
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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. 😁
napi21
(45,806 posts)Budi
(15,325 posts)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.)
monkeyman1
(5,109 posts)Fuck the grifters
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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.
Budi
(15,325 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)How to Build Trumps Wall - Privatize It
Republicans have often found a way to tax people surreptitiously by privatizing many public works projects to corporations rather than have govt 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 Trumps 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 govt money by investing in it and show their confidence in Trumps word that Mexico will pay for it .
No govt backed bonds.
No cost to the govt,,, 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.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)Totally Tunsie
(10,885 posts)Asking for a friend...
Mopar151
(9,980 posts)mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)Undoubtedly a giant boondoggle for friends of the orange a$$hole.
packman
(16,296 posts)and still making/stockpiling that fence shit along the border. May not be being built , but still $ going out on contract obligations.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Thanks Joe! Love ya!
keithbvadu2
(36,775 posts)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.
Brainfodder
(6,423 posts)UTUSN
(70,683 posts)rockfordfile
(8,702 posts)If you're going to put resources at the border, then it should be in man-power.