Trump's $1.1T Budget Calling for $1.5B Funding 'The Wall'; Mexico Isn't Paying John Presta - Blasting News
go to original March 16, 2017

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Rome was not built in one day, and apparently, President Donald Trump's wall along the Mexican border will not be built or funded in total in one year either. Or even two years. According to #White House Budget Director Mike Mulvaney, the budget proposed by the WH is calling for spending of $1.5 billion for building "The Wall" along the Mexican border.

The budget also calls for an additional spending of $2.6 billion on "The Wall" for the following fiscal year. The total cost is projected to cost over $25 billion. Internally, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security estimated the cost at $21.6 billion and an outside firm, Bernstein Research, placed the price tag much higher at $25 billion.

The budget did not include a forecast of the next decade or a funding plan to build it. The Trump budget calls for more military spending, and a much more robust of enforcing immigration laws. Subsidies for public broadcasting, the arts, agriculture, education much of what the EPA does is in the cards, pending Congressional approval.

What is clear as a bell is that Mexico will not pay for "The Wall" despite Trump's insistence. Nor has a provision been proposed in the budget released on Thursday morning indicating a payment from Mexico.

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Related: Former Mexican president Vicente Fox Says Mexico Will ‘Never Ever Pay for That F---ing Wall’ (Miami Herald)

Related: 'Exorbitantly Expensive': 24 Senators Introduce Bill to Nix Trump's Border Wall (Sputnik)

Related: Trump's Budget Shows He Is Getting Ready to Fight Americans for Their Land on the Border (Business Insider)

Related: President Trump's Proposed Budget Would Eliminate Public Arts, Library, Broadcasting Agencies (The Washington Post)

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Related: The Latest Twist in the Homeland Security Solicitation for a Border Wall: It Doesn’t Need to Be a Wall (The Atlantic Monthly)

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