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| Cong. Mark Meadows: If Obama could send money to Iran, Trump can find money to build the wall |
| 2019-01-27 |
| [Washington Examiner] House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows, R-N.C., said Saturday that if President Barack Obama could send money to Iran as part of the 2015 nuclear deal, President Trump should be able to find money to build the wall along the southern border without being blocked by the courts. "Listen, if President Obama can send $1.8 billion to the Iranians ‐ I can tell you I didn’t appropriate that ‐ certainly finding a few billion dollars for border security on our southern border is something that this president can do legally and without a challenge," Meadows told Fox News in an interview. Trump announced Friday that a deal to temporarily end the partial government shutdown, which then was in its 35th day, had been reached. The agreement included no money for a wall along the southern border, as the president has demanded, but reopened shuttered agencies through Feb. 15. Republicans and Democrats have until then to negotiate a broader immigration deal, in which Trump wants to include wall funding. The president said that if a deal cannot be reached, he would declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and build the wall. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #3 It's not the money that's stopping them. Of course it's the money - the money they're personally going to lose by losing elections without illegals to vote for them. |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2019-01-27 11:14 |
| #2 According to the USAID website, the US government between 2009 and 2016 dished out approximately $3.3 billion to Mexico in foreign aid. Those were the years when Baraq was in office. That figure does not include Honduras, Guatemala and Nicaragua. Stop all that nonsense and you'd have a significant down payment on the wall. As I said before, Democrats squander $5.7 billion every morning before breakfast. It's not the money that's stopping them. |
| Posted by: Abu Uluque 2019-01-27 10:58 |
| #1 I think we have to realize that certain political persuasions have a lot of trouble with the B word, and even more with the actual amount. What's a C-5 or 4 crammed to the gunnels with currency? Kind of like their new found morality against the existence of billionaires. Well, unless it's the Castro brothers, or Chavez' daughter, to pick but 2 of many. |
| Posted by: Cesare 2019-01-27 09:26 |