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Showing Original Post only (View all)US Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles Of Fence (*$920 million per mile) [View all]
Last edited Wed May 22, 2019, 09:28 AM - Edit history (2)
*$920 million per mileU.S. Customs and Border Protection has put up just 1.7 miles of fencing with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trumps wall along the Mexican border, a federal judge was told.
A lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives provided the information Tuesday to the judge in Oakland, California, who is weighing requests from 20 state attorneys general and the the Sierra Club to block Trump from using funds not authorized by Congress to build the wall.
"The administration recently provided updated information to Congress on the status of its efforts as of April 30, 2019," the attorney, Douglas Letter, said in a court filing. "Based on that updated information, it appears that CBP has now constructed 1.7 miles of fencing with its fiscal year 2018 funding."
That was 3/4 of a mile more than the administration reported at the end of February, Letter said.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-21/federal-wall-funding-of-1-57-billion-yields-1-7-miles-of-fence?srnd=premium
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US Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles Of Fence (*$920 million per mile) [View all]
kpete
May 2019
OP
wow, this is nothing like the one with leather and spikes that the orange asshole wanted LOL nt
Javaman
May 2019
#2
U.S. Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence ... this rate he'll be done in ...
marble falls
May 2019
#10
This is OUR tax dollars. This is the money we worked our asses off for
Ferrets are Cool
May 2019
#16
Could have saved some money if they had hired undocumented workers to build it.
progressoid
May 2019
#24