Trump could take billions from disaster areas to fund wall
Source: NBC News
President Donald Trump has been briefed on a plan that would use the Army Corps of Engineers and a portion of $13.9 billion of Army Corps funding to build 315 miles of barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the briefing.
The money was set aside to fund projects all over the country including storm-damaged areas of Puerto Rico through fiscal year 2020, but the checks have not been written yet and, under an emergency declaration, the president could take the money from these civil works projects and use it to build the border wall, said officials familiar with the briefing and two congressional sources.
The plan could be implemented if Trump declares a national emergency in order to build the wall and would use more money and build more miles than the administration has requested from Congress. The president had requested $5.7 billion for a wall stretching 234 miles.
Under the proposal, the officials said, Trump could dip into the $2.4 billion allocated to projects in California, including flood prevention and protection projects along the Yuba River Basin and the Folsom Dam, as well as the $2.5 billion set aside for reconstruction projects in Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from Hurricane Maria.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/trump-could-take-billions-disaster-areas-fund-wall-n957281
DallasNE
(7,402 posts)And just speed up making us a sh*thole nation. We're already headed in that direction.
madashelltoo
(1,696 posts)What wont he do to lay a physical blemish on the American landscape. An unfinished gaudy wall. What a man?
beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)the next democratic president can completely bypass congress by simply declaring a national emergency....gun violence.....global warming......abortion rights......etc.
This ain't over at all
cstanleytech
(26,280 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)All the time....
elleng
(130,862 posts)Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)to tell ranchers that we were taking their land.
elleng
(130,862 posts)Lonestarblue
(9,969 posts)Many people live on the banks of the Rio Grande, and any wall would be built inland from the river, leaving US citizens in a no-mans land. I woukd hope that they would sue to stop the wall because no government should have the right to cut them out of their own country.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)Wow, do you think Texans are going to negotiate with Mexico?
duforsure
(11,885 posts)People in it will be stuck out in the cold because of trump , and his wall came before helping people after a disaster. What a shameful thing to even suggest. This is just trump working hard trying to stiff the American people even more for himself, again.
htuttle
(23,738 posts)I guess if there's one thing he's good at, it's stiffing contractors.
herding cats
(19,559 posts)For example, McConnell is up in 2020 and his voters back home adore Trump. Which is why he's been hiding his face while obstructing any bills to reopen the government.
Now I'll be on Trump and McConnell can hold his head up high that he stood strong with their leader. He's not the only Republican in the senate who would be glad to see this shutdown end this way.
WhoWoodaKnew
(847 posts)that act this way?
dhill926
(16,336 posts)fuck this shit...
janx
(24,128 posts)Pelosi mentioned it today. It probably is no coincidence.
herding cats
(19,559 posts)It was by design.
Bernardo de La Paz
(48,988 posts)Hurt, hurt, hurt.