Montana Republican proposes state give $8M for border wall

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

Amy Beth Hanson, Associated Press
Updated 12:02 pm CST, Thursday, January 10, 2019

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A Montana politician is proposing the state give more than $8 million to help build President Donald Trump's proposed wall on the Mexican border as a government shutdown over the $5.7 billion project continues. The proposal seems unlikely to pass in a state with a Democratic governor exploring a run for president.

At least one other state, South Dakota, is considering voicing support for Trump's wall. But Montana, which last year faced a massive budget shortfall, appears to be the first to propose spending its own money on the project.

Scott Sales, a fiscally conservative Republican who leads the state Senate, says his proposal is a "small token" to show border security "is of vital interest to all citizens regardless of what state they live in."

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"Congress is basically dragging their heels over $5 billion, which is really trivial compared to what we spend on an annual basis," Sales said Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.chron.com/news/texas/article/Montana-Republican-proposes-state-give-8M-for-13523689.php

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[dalton99a]

1. Take it out of his bank account

[Traildogbob]

8. 💰💰💰

Dems should demand to temporarily end the GOP tax scam until all the cash needed for his wall is accumulated. Or propose a one time wall tax, equal percentage between rich and poor, with no loop holes. The rich will loose their collective asses and the poor, tRumpster supporters, will have to cough up what they demand for this ridiculous scam.

[Canoe52]

2. He's not too good on the maths is he?

[modrepub]

9. $5.7B Divided by 50 States

= $114M a piece by my calculation. Yea, he's only short $106M.

Typical Red State mentality, I put $5 in the church till last Sunday and I expect to be placed on the board dang nabbit!

[haele]

3. Since more terrorists have been caught at the Northern Border, they should build the wall there....

Oh, wait, it's not really about U.S. border security, right? It's about GOP security...

Haele

[C Moon]

4. It's all going to come from Russian oligarchs, anyway, with a HUGE "interest" attached.

[Juneboarder]

5. He looks like a pedophile w/that mustache... nt

[Sneederbunk]

6. Better save for northern border wall. The Canadians are coming for you.

[BlueMTexpat]

7. Just checked and am somewhat

relieved to find that he was born in Wyoming, not Montana.

Montana seems to have attracted a lot of nutcases since I was born and raised there. I remember when it was a "blue" state with Senators Mansfield and Metcalfe and Representatives like Arnold Olson and Pat Williams - all decent and compassionate politicians. That was - unfortunately - a LONG time ago.

Thank heavens it still has Jon Tester as one Senator and Steve Bullock as Governor to restrain the crazies somewhat. The DNC really needs to work harder with the grassroots to help break the GOP lock on the Legislature.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Their trivial share of a trivial $5billion would be a trivial $16.25million.

1,062,330 Montana population / 326,766,748 US population =

Their trivial share of a trivial $5billion would be a trivial $16.25million.

Fiscal conservative or crooked?

[klook]

11. LOL, "fiscally conservative" ...

Sure, let’s blow $8 million on a project that has zero relevance to our state!

[NCjack]

12. coo-coo, coo-coo. Put the money into escrow account or Trump inc. will steal it. nt

[McKim]

13. Montanans are Way Too Practicle for This

Montanans are way too practicle and down to earth for this. This will be a very unpopular idea there. This is just playing to the base, who fortunately are not in charge in Montana.

[Thekaspervote]

14. Just like the gofundme wall thing you cannot give money to gov't officials and ear mark it for a

Specific purpose. It’s called buying the gov’t for what you want. Can you imagine!!?? On the other hand, you can gift money to the gov’t but congress decides how to allocate the funds