Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

Military Will Build Border Wall If Congress Won't Approve Funding, Trump Says

In a Twitter storm Tuesday, President Donald Trump lashed out at Democrats on the budget impasse and said the military would build the border wall if Congress won't approve funding.

"If the Democrats do not give us the v**es to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall," he said in a series of early morning tweets. "They [the military] know how important it is!"

Trump sent the tweets ahead of a meeting later Tuesday with the two top Democrats in Congress -- Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-New York, and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California -- on the budget impasse that threatens a partial government shutdown Dec. 21.

The president gave no indication of how a military effort at border wall construction would be funded or carried out, but he praised the actions of the more than 5,000 active-duty troops now deployed to border states to stop migrants from entering the country, stringing concertina wire and shoring up barricades at existing ports of entry.

There is no money in the current Defense Department budget for border wall construction.

"Despite the large Caravans that WERE forming and heading to our Country, people have not been able to get through our newly built Walls, makeshift Walls & Fences, or Border Patrol Officers & Military," Trump said in a tweet.

He said that Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Customs and Border Protection and "our Military have done a FANTASTIC job of securing our Southern Border. A Great Wall would be, however, a far easier & less expensive solution. We have already built large new sections & fully renovated others, making them like new."

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2018/12/11/military-will-build-border-wall-if-congress-wont-approve-funding-trump-says.html

Weasel Loc: In the Great State Of Indiana!!

I see no problem here, as long as we get it built.
God Bless our Military.

Kevyn

Trump should focus on getting the funding from Mexico because it isn’t coming from congress. Trumpty dumptys wall is not happening.

Kevyn

Trump screwed a number in our military who were forced to an empty desert and away from their families as a campaign stunt. By the way they developed technology that rendered such walls obsolete. It is a device called a ladder.

bahmer

Amen and Amen same here.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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Stupid liberals won't accept the fact that the current wall where it is located has kept the invaders at bay for the time being.
I can not understand why you stupid liberals want to have no borders and to turn this country into a 3rd or 4th world country.

bahmer

They will take credit for forcing Trump to have the military build the wall and saving the US from all of that expense.

Weasel Loc: In the Great State Of Indiana!!

Get out of the past dude. We have a wall to build for our future.

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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Kevy will need to find some Conservative to read yer email to him

Fit2BTied Loc: Texas

There are enough ex-military folks on here who know that there are a whole truckload of items not listed on the defense budget that get funded openly or otherwise. It doesn't take > $700 billion to maintain our military might. I read that the defense department was going to ask for a bit over $730B and Trump wants $750 - but of course that's his negotiation starting point. I'm curious how this plays out, but there is certainly enough money in the defense budget to "defend our southern border" if that's the only way to get it done. I say do it.

waltmoreno

And determined people can still get into your house whether you lock the doors or not. Knowing that will you continue to lock the doors when you leave, or at night? If so, why? They can still get in.
Or knowing that your alarm system can be disabled by someone determined to enter your house, will you still set it when you leave? Why? It's not foolproof.
Knowing that someone can break your windows and enter, will you still close your windows when you leave? Why?
So will you just leave your house unlocked and open, and the windows all up because someone, somewhere can enter no matter what precautions you take?
Answer: NO! You take wh**ever precautions you can to insure your security so that you only have to deal with the hard-core lawbreakers. And for those you have your 9mm Glock model 43 at the ready. Kapish?

Oldsailor65 Loc: Iowa

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Nobody want's ta break into Kevy's mom's basement.

Smedley_buzkill

Mine is a model 21, in 45 ACP. The 9mm was something the Germans invented to scare Frenchmen. For dangerous people you need a .45.

waltmoreno

I hear you about the 45 ACP. A 45 will knock you on your a** even if it hits you on your pinky. I switched to 9mm because it got to be too expensive just to stay in practice. 9mm rounds costs a lot less. So I can stay in practice to put rounds on target every time.

woodguru

Trump said he was unaware of any Trump people ever having anything to do with any Russians too...
what he says doesn't mean much...