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8 hours ago, patrickgold said:

Please don't talk about the past to make your point.

But Butt But..If they don't talk about the past, in which most had nothing to do with them, they was raised that way..They wouldn't haven't a platform..So many injustice in the past, they feel someone owes them something...

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On 2/15/2019 at 5:19 AM, bostonangler said:

I remember when Pence said using this power was not leadership... Leadership was negotiating to find common ground. 

 

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I remember when Obama, Schumer, Pelosi, Biden and other Democrats all rallied against the flow of drugs into our country killing our people. Further they each said a wall will stop most of that, along with High Tech usage, in a comprehensive package. But they never passed it. They only declared it necessary. Why does it not bare the same degree of importance now as it did then ? Since El Chapo said he bribed the former Mexican President with $100 million dollars to over look his mis-deeds in Mexico, did they not pass the "package" to secure our border because they were enjoying large sum donations to their campaigns ??? When the Dems do not come up off of ZERO dollars for the wall, making them bad faith negotiations, they force Trump to do what he has. He has to get the wall built in order to protect his citizens.

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Trump border wall: Third of Pentagon money president plans to use for wall is already spent, officals say

Tom Embury-Dennis,The Independent 6 hours ago 
 

Up to a third of the $6.7bn (£5.2bn) in Pentagon funds Donald Trump has identified to spend on a US-Mexico border wall has already been spent, officials have revealed.

During his emergency powers declaration last month, the US president announced he would divert billions of dollars from other Department of Defense projects towards the wall, in order to circumvent Congress.

It included $3.6bn (£2.8bn) in unspent military construction money, as well as $2.5bn (£1.9bn) in counterdrug funds and $600m (£462m) from an asset forfeiture account – the latter two not dependent on the emergency delaration.

But a spokesperson for the House appropriations committee told the Congressional Quartely (CQ) magazine that only $85m (£65m) remains in the counterdrug account, wiping out more than $2.4bn Mr Trump intended for the wall.

In order to recoup that money, the Pentagon is planning to redirect money from other programmes in order to bring the counterdrug account back up to $2.5bn, so that Mr Trump can then move it again into border wall funding.

“The Department would need to reprogramme additional funding into the account to reach the up to $2.5 billion that may be required for border security support,” Defense Department spokesman Christopher Sherwood told CQ.

Any repurposing of funds by the Pentagon, however, would require authorisation from the leaders of the four congressional committees which oversee the department.

Peter Viscolsky, Democratic chair of the House defense appropriations subcommittee, said in a statement he would refuse any request to repurpose Pentagon money for a wall.

“I am adamantly opposed to the use of any funds provided by Congress to the Department of Defense for the unauthorized construction of a wall on the Southwest border,” he said.

“I and the other members of the House appropriations committee will carefully examine each element of the president’s proposal and the serious jurisdictional and constitutional concerns that it raises.”

The White House earlier this week announced it was moving forward with its wall plans, though in the face of lawsuits challenging the president’s declaration, officials told CNNthey planned to only use funds from the counterdrugs programme and the Treasury Department’s asset forfeiture fund.

The White House has been contacted for comment.

 

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-border-wall-third-pentagon-133032116.html

 

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58 Former National Security Officials Debunk Trump’s National Emergency Claim

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Rolling StoneFebruary 25, 2019
 
 
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Earlier this month, President Trump declared a national emergency under the guise that undocumented immigrants represent a security threat to the United States. On Monday, a bipartisan group of 58 former national security officials released a statement explaining why the action is unwarranted. “Under no plausible assessment of the evidence is there a national emergency today that entitles the president to tap into funds appropriated for other purposes to build a wall at the southern border,” the group wrote.

 

The 11-page statement claims there is “no factual basis” to justify Trump’s national emergency declaration. In doing so, it notes that illegal border crossings are at their lowest point in decades, that the majority of drugs coming across the border are brought through legal points of entry and that siphoning funding from military programs in order to build a border wall “will undermine U.S. national security and foreign policy interests.” The officials also write that there is no crisis relating to violent crime at the border, and that Trump’s proclamation will only “exacerbate the humanitarian concerns that do exist at the southern border.”

Among those who signed the letter are former secretary of state Madeleine Albright, former CIA director John Brennan, former national intelligence director James Clapper, former defense secretary Chuck Hagel and several officials from the Bush and Obama administrations.

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Border Patrol agent Vincent Pirro looks on near a border wall that separates the cities of Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego, in San Diego. President Donald Trump is expected to speak about funding for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border during his State of the Union address TuesdayBorder Wall, San Diego, USA - 05 Feb 2019

According to the Washington Post, the letter is intended to support litigation “and other actions” challenging Trump’s declaration. Several lawsuits have already been filed in an effort to stop the president from circumventing Congress to build a border wall, including one brought by 16 states. On Tuesday, the House of Representatives will vote on a resolution brought to the floor by Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) that seeks to “terminate” the declaration. Even if the resolution passes the House and the Senate, however, it is likely to be subject to a veto from the president.

On Monday morning, Trump warned Republicans about getting “led down the path of weak and ineffective Border Security.”

 

The former national security officials who signed the letter released Monday aren’t the first officials to dismiss the idea that undocumented immigrants constitute a threat. In January, current intelligence officials, led by National Intelligence Director Dan Coats, briefed Congress on the most imminent threats to the nation’s safety. Mentioned at length were Russia, ISIS and North Korea, but not the southern border. Shortly after the briefing, the president rebuked the officials for failing to align with his personal views regarding the threats.

Trump, himself, has claimed there’s no need to panic about the situation at the border. While announcing the national emergency declaration earlier this month, he essentially admitted that there is no real emergency. “I want to do it faster,” he said. “I could do the wall over a long period of time. I didn’t need to do this.”

 

https://news.yahoo.com/58-former-national-security-officials-162709829.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index

 

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