How funding Donald Trumps border wall could go south real quickly for Republicans

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How funding Donald Trump’s border wall could go south real quickly for Republicans

By Amber Phillips

@byamberphillips

January 6 at 10:20 AM

If Donald Trump's vision that Mexico would pay for his border wall seems unrealistic, the notion that taxpayers are going to pay for it is likely just as unrealistic, say budget experts.

And yet that's exactly what it looks like Republicans are planning to do: The Post's Mike DeBonis reports that in the decided absence of an agreement from Mexico to pay for it (their leaders have scoffed at the idea), Republicans in Congress are looking at how to fund a wall or fence of indeterminate billions of dollars with taxpayer money, and then hope Mexico pays for it later.

But moving forward with that plan would put Republicans and Trump in some very awkward political positions, and it could even lead to a potential government shutdown this spring.

“This would be a huge and ridiculous overreach by Republicans,” said nonpartisan budget expert Stan Collender. ... Let's break down how funding a border wall could go south real quickly for Republicans in Washington.

[Wounded Bear]

1. Sounds a lot like "repeal and delay"...

Repub motto:

Never do today what you can put off to tomorrow.

[Wellstone ruled]

2. Lets us see just a couple of things that

could go wrong. Seems to me,there is a large Native Reservation that straddles the Border,that is a Treaty Issue with Mexico and the USA. And there is a certain well connected Religious Family Group who owns tens of thousands of Acres of Ranch land in Mexico as well as land in the USA on the border.

[2naSalit]

3. Eminent domain will be declared.

[Wellstone ruled]

4. Eminent Domain

is a tough one. The Native American Reservation is on both sides of the border and I believe it is a Treaty Issue And the Other Group has way more Power and Sway than one thinks,and descendants of this Order are Senators and Congress people .

[2naSalit]

6. That may be so, however,

I can see the Rs ramrodding a new definition... and starting a war or something like one.

Nothing is within reason anymore with them so... they'll make something up and try to make it stick like they do with everything else.

[Wellstone ruled]

8. Know doubt the Thugs will try.

This is a Treaty we are dealing with,and if they open that can of worms,oh boy,that opens all Native Treaties in the USA and Canada.

[2naSalit]

9. Absolutely...

and I wouldn't put it past them to create that shitstorm. They want to kill the USof A and are racing full scream ahead into the abyss with us all attached.

[progressoid]

5. I can foresee another massive protest on the reservation like the pipeline protest in ND.

[2naSalit]

7. Yup..

I see something like a return to the 1960s protest marches when I got my first whiff of tear gas.

[Wellstone ruled]

10. Follow the proposed changes in

terrorist classifications. It isn't looking pretty.

[2naSalit]

11. Yeah,

I've been labeled an ecoterrorist by Wcheney's cabal for protesting stupidity.

[Vinca]

12. The pattern that has been repeated time and time again is already beginning.

Republicans take charge, run the country off the cliff and Democrats will have to come in and clean up the mess. How many times has this happened? How many times have they pimped trickle down economics? We're headed toward a Sam Brownback scenario.