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

[BaggerofTea]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/05/polit...republicans-donald-trump-taxpayers/index.html

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.
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The proposal was first reported by Politico.
"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.
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.
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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."

 

[el_oh_el]

Trump voters

 

[Worthless Loser]

Congress gonna give him the big

Ain't no wall getting built.

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

"We want President Trump to have all the tools he needs to build the wall," Scalise said.

If the Dems had any balls they'd hit them with a and "go fukk your self". Keeping tabs on who votes to fund this bullshyt

 

[THE MACHINE]

Trump voters

They don't even care man, their end game was to get him in. They'll roll with whatever he sells them at this point. They've already convinced themselves to like Putin and hate their own healthcare

 

[Uncle Hotep]

i think there is money already earmarked for a wall for a few decades

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Get Cucked, brehs

 

[FaTaL]

If the Dems had any balls they'd hit them with a and "go fukk your self". Keeping tabs on who votes to fund this bullshyt

could they stop it though?

 

[Reality Check]

could they stop it though?

Alone dems can't, but I don't imagine a lot of Republicans who want to tackle the national debt will be thrilled to be paying for a wall their leader repeatedly said Mexico would be paying for. Doesn't quite gel with trying to cut the deficit.

 

[FaTaL]

Alone dems can't, but I don't imagine a lot of Republicans who want to tackle the national debt will be thrilled to be paying for a wall their leader repeatedly said Mexico would be paying for. Doesn't quite gel with trying to cut the deficit.

this whole issue could fracture the republican party, it should be interesting

 

[Lucky_Lefty]

could they stop it though?

Nope but they could learn from this last Congress and bytch & complain at every turn to keep it on the publics conscience. All the litigation this would need to go thru just for it to happen is the true hidden cost that no ones accounting for. I mean, unless the Republicans are down for ceasing private property from hard working American citizens

 

[hashmander]

Alone dems can't, but I don't imagine a lot of Republicans who want to tackle the national debt will be thrilled to be paying for a wall their leader repeatedly said Mexico would be paying for. Doesn't quite gel with trying to cut the deficit.

republicans only care about debt and the deficit when a democrat is in the white house.

 

[Tommy Fits]

All you can do is laugh at this point

 

[Maschine_Man]

But doesn't saying Mexico will reimburse them imply that they would pay for it up front?

 

[Saiyajin]