Now that the courts have cleared the way for PDJT to use unexpended funds for border wall construction, some people out on the extreme fringes of the Democratic Party are starting another fake narrative. They claim that PDJT is taking moneys away from the budget for the education for children of members of our military in order to build the wall on the southern border.
This false story is so disgusting and insane that no Democratic Presidential candidate has deigned to pick up this story and run with it. And that says a lot after the looney tunes actions of Kamala Harris trumpeting the libelous story that ran in the NYTimes about Justice Kavanaugh. Of course, Harris is running behind Andrew Yang in her HOME state of California. Apparently she actually will do anything to pump up her polling numbers.
So where is the money coming from?
As reported at CNBC, the money will come from a mixture of congressional appropriations and several departments’ pre-existing programs. These include the following areas:
- $1.375 billion from the Homeland Security appropriations bill
- $600 million from the Treasury Department’s drug forfeiture fund
- $2.5 billion from the Department of Defense’s drug interdiction program
- $3.6 billion from the Department of Defense’s military construction account
The $1.375 billion is part of a spending bill passed by Congress. This was short of the $5.7 billion that Trump had asked for late last year but didn’t get.
As the President noted then,
“They say walls don’t work. Walls work 100 percent,”
“We fight wars that are 6,000 miles away, wars that we never should have been in. But we don’t control our own border. So we are going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border, and we’re going to do it one way or the other. We have to do it.”
The President also said that if there was a physical barrier at the southern border, “we’d save tremendous, just a tremendous amount on, would be sending the military. If we had a wall we don’t need the military, cause we’d have a wall!”
(Photo by Sergio Flores/Getty Images)
An interesting side note to this is that Elizabeth (“I have a plan for that”) Warren has announced a $100 Billion plan to fight the opioid epidemic. But she voted against the $5.7 billion appropriation for a wall that would stop a lot of the drugs that are flowing across our southern border. Apparently stopping the problem at its source is too difficult an idea for Warren to conceive as part of the solution for this problem.