First phase of Trump border wall gets $18 billion price tag, in new request to lawmakers
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By Nick Miroff and Erica Werner January 5 at 7:27 PM
The Trump administration has told lawmakers that it wants $18 billion over the next decade for the initial phase of a Mexico border wall, laying out for the first time a detailed financial blueprint for the presidents signature campaign promise.
The money would pay for 316 miles of new fencing and reinforce another 407 miles where barriers are already in place, according to cost estimates sent to senators Friday by U.S. Customs and Border Protection. If the work was completed, more than half of the 2,000-mile border with Mexico would have a wall or other physical structure by 2027.
Democratic lawmakers blasted the $18 billion request, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, and it arrived in the middle of delicate budget negotiations that include the risk of a government shutdown Jan. 20 if no deal is reached.
President Trump has said he may need a good government shutdown to get his wall. With this demand, he seems to be heading in that direction, said Sen. Richard J. Durbin of Illinois, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Immigration subcommittee. ........................................
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Trump's border wall prototypes go up
Prototypes for President Trump's promised border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border are on display as his administration still attempts to fund the project. (Reuters)
underpants
(182,585 posts)eppur_se_muova
(36,247 posts)Billion$$$ for Friends Of The GOP.
C_U_L8R
(44,983 posts)and his minions. A beacon of buffoonery.
The dumbest, most pointless and inneffective vanity project, ever.
a BIG part of this is that it is a vanity project for him ...
notdarkyet
(2,226 posts)Bleacher Creature
(11,250 posts)riversedge
(70,047 posts)have NOT mentioned that he has NOT kept his promise of having Mexico pay for the wall.
I saw several clips of the rally crowd---cheering trump on when he said Mexico will pay. I wonder if it even phases trumps fans they will pay.
briv1016
(1,570 posts)harun
(11,348 posts)duforsure
(11,884 posts)Dems should remind him Mexico is not the American people just so he understands, then say they'll never talk about or vote anything about a wall until he officially admits in public he lied to the American people about Mexico would pay for it.
djacq
(1,633 posts)[link:
|riversedge
(70,047 posts)riversedge
(70,047 posts)watch them lock in the vote to their supreme leader!
.............Republican reaction was muted Friday. Even many Republicans have deemed a physical wall along the entire border unnecessary and impractical, saying that more effective border security could be achieved through other means, including better surveillance and technology.
CBP said it would like to add more than 2,000 miles of what it called a total Border wall system that would eventually encompass 864 miles of new primary wall on land where no barrier currently exists. It would add 1,163 miles of replacement wall or secondary wall, which DHS officials said could consist of a wall backed by a fence or two fences.
Some of the new barriers would have to be installed along the winding banks of the Rio Grande, where landowners have protested construction of new fencing on their ranches and farms.
Vinca
(50,236 posts)Weed Man
(304 posts)Since they are stealing our funds anyway.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)When is he going to talk about the 1,600 mile wall he is going to build between the US and the Gulf of Mexico and how the Gulf of Mexico is going to pay for it. I can not remember reading any article about the wall that mentions that Mexicans own boats.
raccoon
(31,105 posts)I hope some one is listening to him. I guess he should know.
D_Master81
(1,822 posts)I remember in the primary he said it would "probably cost 8 billion" if not less. Now for 700 miles of 2000 its over twice that?