Trump could take billions from disaster areas to fund wall

[cashwhisperer]

Source: NBC News

President Donald Trump has been briefed on a plan that would use the Army Corps of Engineers and a portion of $13.9 billion of Army Corps funding to build 315 miles of barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, according to three U.S. officials familiar with the briefing.

The money was set aside to fund projects all over the country including storm-damaged areas of Puerto Rico through fiscal year 2020, but the checks have not been written yet and, under an emergency declaration, the president could take the money from these civil works projects and use it to build the border wall, said officials familiar with the briefing and two congressional sources.

The plan could be implemented if Trump declares a national emergency in order to build the wall and would use more money and build more miles than the administration has requested from Congress. The president had requested $5.7 billion for a wall stretching 234 miles.

Under the proposal, the officials said, Trump could dip into the $2.4 billion allocated to projects in California, including flood prevention and protection projects along the Yuba River Basin and the Folsom Dam, as well as the $2.5 billion set aside for reconstruction projects in Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from Hurricane Maria.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/im...ake-billions-disaster-areas-fund-wall-n957281

 

[Watcher]

No could.

He will.

Steal funds from devastated people to pay for his useless campaign slogan...100% Trump.

 

[T_Holmes]

All this talk about ordering FEMA to hold funds from California was just testing the water. Now that no one made enough noise about that, he probably figures he can strip money from their disaster funding and act like he's penalizing them for some imagined slight.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

lol this is one self serving fuckin asshole..

its becoming more and more apparent this wall

has zero to do with our national security and everything to do

with trumps personal bottom line..

this fool is literally pimpin the presidency bruh...

muthafucka literally turning the white house into a big Russian whore house..

and cacs thought a "black" family in the white house was gonna bring this country down...

no muthafuckas its your lack of a functional thought process and your choice for president..

that's sticking the fork in this country....


but here is the crazy part.. yall ready for this shit right here..

they call this fiasco

makin America great again...this muthafucka going on his third year.. and we talkin bout a fuckin wall...

whose mans is this...???

oh never mind I found them...

 

[Dr. Truth]

Jews will not replace us!!! MAGA!!

 

[Fright Night]

Starting to feel like everyone is in on his plan. No one can stop anything he is doing.

The Perez shouldn't have this much power. While under investigation he does shit to cause another investigation then does shit to cause yet another investigation. At what point are you just not fit for the job?

The plan will only work if he was never fit and they are all in on it.

 

[lexdiamonnyc]

Trump could get the money from any number of places, but he wants the Dems to give it to him. That would be a huge win for him in front of his base.

 

[gene cisco]

His supporters don't give a fuck about Cali or Puerto Rico. To them, that's as good as Mexico paying for that bullshit wall. That's one slick bastard.

 

[moblack]

His supporters don't give a fuck about Cali or Puerto Rico. To them, that's as good as Mexico paying for that bullshit wall. That's one slick bastard.

Yep one is Dems and the other Brown people who speak Spanish