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jmowreader

(50,555 posts)

7. Take it from nowhere.

Reply to slater71 (Original post)

Fri Dec 14, 2018, 12:22 PM

Dec 2018

$5.1 billion isn't enough to even get started...and since Trump has asked for $25 billion in the past, why is he even bothering asking for a fifth of what he used to think it was going to take?

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Trump wants 5.1 billion for the wall. Take it from the defense budget. [View all] slater71 Dec 2018 OP

No. PJMcK Dec 2018 #1

This. Why do we even deign to discuss it? It's still patently absurd. Squinch Dec 2018 #5

Better yet, scrap the entire detestable project altogether. VOX Dec 2018 #2

Just yesterday, leftynyc Dec 2018 #3

He can discuss it with Mexico- they're paying for it YessirAtsaFact Dec 2018 #4

Screw that. Mexico is paying for it. Dave Starsky Dec 2018 #6

Take it from nowhere. jmowreader Dec 2018 #7

The Trump Organization should build it and bill Mexico dalton99a Dec 2018 #8

He just wants a 5 billion dollar bone to throw to his base Elwood P Dowd Dec 2018 #9