House Passes $788 Billion Spending Bill For Military, Mexico Border Wall

[turbinetree]

Source: Talking Points Memo

By Associated Press Published JULY 27, 2017 5:39 PM



WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a $788 billion spending bill that combines a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump’s controversial border wall with Mexico with a whopping budget increase for the Pentagon.

The 235-192 vote both eases a large backlog of unfinished spending bills and gives Trump and his House GOP allies political wins heading into the August recess. Significant hurdles remain in front of the measure, which will meet with more powerful Democratic opposition in the Senate.

A potential government shutdown battle over the U.S.-Mexico wall looms this fall. The generous defense spending increases also run afoul of strict spending limits set by an earlier budget law.

For now, however, Republicans controlling the House cheered the measure’s help for military readiness and generous increases for veterans.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/house-spending-bill-military-border-wall

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And now the taxpayers are going to make a berlin type wall, when 41.6 billion could be used for roads, schools, and such, no wonder this country is going to hell in a hand basket

[TEB]

1. Great

We are building a coyote urinal , and not subsidizing education or school lunches. We have GOP serial killers in elected office who wants to pass trump eugenics bill and repeal the ACA.

[turbinetree]

2. And health care.................nope they want to have a wall

[left-of-center2012]

3. "... $1.6 billion for President Trump's wall with Mexico"

[turbinetree]

4. The Indigenous People of the Cherokee have a word for this "guy" (Yonega) or LIAR

we don't have word for sexual predator

[workinclasszero]

9. Add that to the ever expanding list

of Trump LIES!

[IronLionZion]

5. The wall will keep America healthy

by providing good exercise for the wall builders and for the people making ladders taller to climb over it. It's good exercise to climb the wall or dig under it or swim around it.

[Owl]

6. Damn! We're up to nearly $800B for this crap now?

[Matthew28]

8. But yet we can't afford

To educate our children, to give our people healthcare or to fix our infrastructure. Pure idiocy.

[workinclasszero]

7. No money for medicaid or health care

But never ending BILLIONS for our bloated MIC and a useless wall!

[angrychair]

11. Exactly

Is it a wall tall enough to keep out planes? Because that is how 90% of illegal immigration occurs. Just saying

[workinclasszero]

13. Walls are built to keep people in like the Berlin wall

The jokes on us.

[BigmanPigman]

10. I heard that to help fund his wall he is using the anti LGBT in military as one of the reasons

for his ridiculous plan/tweet. His budget committee told him he needed to do this but he didn't even consult with the military first.

This is what happens when idiots elect a novice to "shake things up in DC".

[Bengus81]

12. Give Trump some time and we'll be back to blowing BILLIONS on that star wars crap....

Just like the good ole' days with Saint Ronnie.

[workinclasszero]

14. Oh hellz yes11!!!!

The MIC has a ravenous appetite for those sweet sweet taxpayer dollars!

[defacto7]

15. It's all part of the plan

to bankrupt and disband the country. They're doing a great job of that.
Going to hell with that hand basket.

[Judi Lynn]

16. Using taxpayers' money to fund acts of hatred against human beings. What a monument.

How are Republicans supposed to reconcile their own enormous Berlin Wall with images of incompetent actor, Ronald Reagan, pompously announcing, "Mr. Gorbachev, take down this wall."

Many of us were encouraged by corporate media to admire the old fart for pushing the Eastern Germans to remove their wall, after years of raving about nutty old Russians and East Germans who wanted to keep their wall out, and keep Germans from trying to heroically reach the US, to revel in God's great blessing, US Freedom!

[More_Cowbell]

17. Includes funds for Congress's personal security

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/344214-house-approves-spending-bill-with-funds-for-trumps-border-wall

"new funds for members of Congress to increase their personal security."

So they'll still allow guns everywhere, but *they* will be safe.

[benld74]

18. GOP has NO SOUL

[turbinetree]

19. What is really remarkable

is that China is making alliances with countries in Africa, for the resources, China is making alliances in Afghanistan for the resources, so what is this country doing to make alliances, they want to use military force and have a asshole in the white house and the Congress wanting to make war and not alliances---------------the beginning of a crumbling economic power

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/china-railway-one-belt-one-road-1-trillion-plan.html

[hay rick]

20. This is what decline looks like. nt

[pfitz59]

21. Reports are Trump's transgender tweet swayed the vote

and ensured the bill's passage. Throwing LGBQT folk of the altar of political expediency...