TRUMP backtracks on Payment for the WALL!

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Sources: Trump will ask Congress, not Mexico, to pay for border wall

 

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The Trump transition team says his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process

The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump promised to force Mexico to pay for the wall

 

Washington (CNN) - President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April, according to House Republican officials.

The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump repeatedly said he would force Mexico to pay for the construction of the wall along the border, though in October, Trump suggested for the first time that Mexico would reimburse the US for the cost of the wall.

The Trump team argues it will have the authority through a Bush-era 2006 law to build the wall, lawmakers say, but it lacks the money to do so. Transition officials have told House GOP leaders in private meetings they'd like to pay for the wall in the funding bill, a senior House GOP source said.

"It was not done in the Obama administration, so by funding the authorization that's already happened a decade ago, we could start the process of meeting Mr. Trump's campaign pledge to secure the border," Indiana Republican Rep. Luke Messer said on Thursday.

Messer admitted it's "big dollars, but it's a question of priorities." He pointed to a border security bill that Homeland Security Chairman Mike McCaul proposed last year that cost roughly $10 billion.

"Democrats may well find themselves in the position to shut down all of government to stop the buildout of a wall, or of a barrier, or of a fence," Messer said.

The Associated Press and Politico first reported elements of the talks earlier Thursday.

If Mexico refuses to pay for the wall, the GOP could add billions of dollars into the spending bill that needs to pass by April 28 to keep the government open. But doing so would force a showdown with Senate Democrats and potentially threaten a government shutdown.

No decisions have been made, GOP sources said.

Republicans point out that then-Sen. Barack Obama, Sen. Chuck Schumer and then-Sen. Hillary Clinton voted for the 2006 bill and argued that since Democrats backed that bill, they should support efforts to fund the current effort.

The thinking behind the strategy is that it is harder for Democrats to filibuster spending bills because of the high stakes involved if they fail to pass in time.

Rep. Steve Scalise of Louisiana, the No. 3 Republican in the House leadership, declined to say Thursday if Congress would pay for the wall.

"We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall," Scalise said. "We're in talks with him on the details of it as they're still putting together their team. We still got a few months before there's another funding bill that's going to move. We're going to work with him to make sure we can get it done. We want to build a wall. He wants to build a wall."

 

SOURCE: http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/politics/border-wall-house-republicans-donald-trump-taxpayers/ 

 

[KleinGa 18,177]

Can he backtrack on the other 95% of his promises? 

Thanks 

Spoiler

hopefully Congress blocks this travesty

 

[Yuuri 21,636]

5 minutes ago, KleinGa said:

Can he backtrack on the other 95% of his promises? 

Thanks 

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hopefully Congress blocks this travesty

 

He already has.

[Ricardo 8,129]

****ing loser 

[Rat Boy 43,832]

QUEEN of backtracking! When will Britney Spears?

[Smarticle 3,178]

Trumpsters will have no problem with paying for it out of their pocket, they don't care if he backtracked 

[Whispering 18,865]

I'm shocked!!! 

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11 minutes ago, Smarticle said:

Trumpsters will have no problem with paying for it out of their pocket, they don't care if he backtracked 

Sad part is the REST of us who pay taxes have to end up paying for that ridiculousness as well also!  Smfh  

 

 

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[Phlop 4,773]

Well how can you make another country pay for a wall? Like that logic was completely skewed.

If anyone is going to pay for it, it's unfortunately us.

[Morphine Prince 109,650]

Lol I hope no one actually thought he would make Mexico pay for it. 

People on his team had ideas and plans on how to get Mexico to pay for it but in the end I think most of us knew the average American taxpayer would be the one paying for something like this to get done. 

I propose only the people who voted for him should help pay for this if it goes through. 

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LOL what a joke. I love that this is what a day or two after Repubs announced that they wanted to cut the OCE, balloon the deficit, cut Obamacare and defund Planned Parenthood, and whatever else I've missed. Oh but they are going to create jobs. Wrong.

Obamacare repeal costs: 3 million jobs gone, $1.5 trillion in lost gross state product

I need to move now or build a bunker.

[Princess Die 1,864]

39 minutes ago, Smarticle said:

Trumpsters will have no problem with paying for it out of their pocket, they don't care if he backtracked 

I don't think Trumb accepts EBT. 

[weed 78,890]

I hope it plays out like this 

republicans: y'all supported it before pls support it now 

Obama and Hillary:

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17 minutes ago, neptugne said:

I hope it plays out like this 

republicans: y'all supported it before pls support it now 

Obama and Hillary:

Right!  Lol