White House officials said Thursday that President Donald Trump will sign a hotly contested budget bill when lawmakers send it to him, despite the fact that it provides for only 33 miles of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Trump vowed in April 2017 that his long-promised border wall would be finished by the end of his first term in office.
‘It’s certainly going to – yeah,’ he told reporters then, answering a specific question about a four-year timeline and adding that ‘we have plenty of time.’
But at the rate the White House has agreed to, the project could stretch through more than two administrations.
White House Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Thursday in a hastily assembled briefing that Capitol Hill inertia is to blame.
‘If Congress would give us the money to do this, we would do it now,’ he told DailyMail.com.
His team and that of Legislative Director Marc Short have secured funding for 110 miles of border barriers costing a sliver of the $1.3 trillion spending bill set to finish its path through Congress later in the day.
Including new roads, Air Force and U.S. Marine Corps assets, technological improvements, facilities, border patrol vehicles, boats, weapons and new personnel, he total package will consumer $1.6 billion in taxpayer dollars.
Some estimates put funding for border barriers in Thursday’s spending bill at just $600 million of that
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33 miles would be almost enough to go around DC.
Clever. And holding a world of possibility.
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“… despite the fact that it provides for only 33 miles of new barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.”
Not 32, or 34, but 33 SPECIFICALLY.
Why do I always feel like they’re throwing this sh#t in my face.