{"id":135989,"date":"2018-03-27T20:11:02","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T02:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135989"},"modified":"2018-03-30T00:43:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T06:43:57","slug":"mr-mattis-build-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/27\/mr-mattis-build-wall.html","title":{"rendered":"“Mr. Mattis, build up that wall!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Having been unable to get Mexico to do it, and even unable to get Congress — even a GOP-majority Congress[1] to actually fund his zany border Wall proposal — the Donald has lit upon the genius idea of having the Department of Defense build it!<\/p>\n

After all …<\/p>\n

(a) This is all about national defense, so why depend on Homeland Security to do it, when we have a Defense Department?<\/p>\n

and<\/p>\n

(b) The Pentagon now has incredible amounts of money, beautiful amounts, the most amounts, all of it insisted upon by the President as critical for the modernization and build-up of our military. But not as critical as the Wall! Just ask Andr\u00e9 Maginot!<\/p>\n

Aside from the Wall itself being a nutty idea, aside from it being an awful idea having the US Military pay for it, the biggest problem is that the Donald cannot simply do this by fiat. The Defense Budget isn’t a giant checkbook that can spent on whatever they like; appropriations have to be approved by Congress — the same Congress that has been unable to provide funding for the Wall.<\/p>\n

But, hey, no doubt that the Donald will keep pushing this idea until the laughter about it gets too loud, then he’ll drop it for something else — maybe getting the State Dept. to pay for it (“It’s about borders!”) or the Dept. of Health and Human Services to pay for it (“It’s about cutting down on all those freeloading illegals!”).<\/p>\n

Stay tuned!<\/p>\n

——<\/p>\n

[1] Though not a super-majority in the Senate, praise the Maker.<\/p>\n


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\nTrump privately presses for military to pay for border wall – The Washington Post<\/a><\/span>
\nThe president has told Speaker Paul Ryan that the military should finance it after Congress provided only $1.6 billion.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Having been unable to get Mexico to do it, and even unable to get Congress — even a GOP-majority Congress[1] to actually fund his zany border Wall proposal — the Donald has lit upon the genius idea of having the Department of Defense build it! 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