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© (c) Copyright Thomson Reuters 2019.U.S. House passes bill rejecting Trump's border wall emergency
By Susan Cornwell and Richard Cowan WASHINGTON©2024 GPlusMedia Inc.
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RowanM
He "asked" taxpayers to foot the bill? No, he has decided that taxpayers will foot the bill. He isn't giving anyone a choice in the matter.
Sneezy
Serrano, the wall isn't being built. Open your eyes.
Sneezy
Remember that bass has said before that he doesn't take polls seriously, and doesn't think that anyone should trust them because they're unreliable. But he also thinks that this poll from almost 18 months ago, which quibbles and quavers over exact wording, when the truth is clear to everyone: the majority of Americans don't want the wall; the majority of Americans on the border don't want the wall; the majority of Americans don't like Trump.
And now Cohen has exposed even more lies and criminal activity by the world's stupidest hair donor recipient. And once again, the right wingers here blither and deflect.
SuperLib
Ah, yes. Bass' famous link from 2 years ago calling out a single poll because it didn't like how the question was asked. And that somehow trumps all of the recently polling data because....bass.
bass4funk
No, the Democrats said, No. The people overwhelmingly do want a wall and that number is rising.
https://thehill.com/opinion/immigration/350217-americans-support-a-border-wall-more-than-the-media-wants-to-believe
Hogwash, it wouldn’t have mattered one bit, the Democrats were never going to let him have a win, they didn’t even care or wanted DACA resolved when Trump said he would give 2 million amnesty and Nancy and Chuck said, No. there you go.
bass4funk
Yeah, the Democrats care about border security and that defines as.....wait.....uh....but anyway, we care somewhat....
Feinstein had a Chinese spy...why?
2013 it was a serious crisis, now it’s not.....what changed....ahhhh, the President. Lol
nishikat
No, those are prototypes. And they will just use ladders anyway. Or shoes just to talk around it since it is so short.
Serrano
Super, I know it pains you deeply that the wall is being built, but try to get over it.
SuperLib
Trump had his chance to sell his wall to the American people, and they said NO. Had he tried something other than fear and BS, maybe things would have been different. Maybe he could have gotten majority support.
But he failed.
Strangerland
Nope.
Strangerland
Um, yeah:
lincolnman
"A great, great wall that Mexico will pay for, mark my words, mark my words"
You can certainly mark any word that comes out of Dimwit Donnie's mouth - mark it BS...
The "Trump Memorial We Hate Immigrants Wall" - with a small door so the ones that work at Mar-A-Lago and his golf courses can get in...
They certainly did - and....
BINGO! Not so much of a national emergency for two whole years, was it?
The operative word being "border barriers" - he got zero for a wall - Nancy slapped him silly...just like Ann Coulter...
Andrew Crisp
Big deal - still has to get past the Senate then signed by the President - the Democrats the great time wasters
Toasted Heretic
Finally, someone sees through the folly of this wall.
Blacklabel
Yeah, its not like no Dem ever thought of using this for gun control or climate change.
If you could actually use an emergency declaration for such a thing, it would have been done already by a previous Dem president. So its pretty obvious it cant be done.
bass4funk
No, DACA was.
Yeah, the liberals keep passing along that myth...
Wouldnt be the first time.
Well, no one told Obama to roll the dice with DACA, so here we are.
Blacklabel
We have no way to know this as we cant count those we dont catch nor see who just walks across in a place where there is no wall. How can you know who crosses the border undetected?
Serrano
93 trillion on a fairy tale ( Green New Deal ) but not 5 billion for a wall. Incredible...
bass4funk
Oh, stop! That box was already opened when the last President used his pen and phone to issue DACA. We are already there and make no mistake, the Democrats would just as easily use a declaration if the opportunity arises. This dog and pony show that Democrats would be above issuing an order is a joke. They will do it either way or they could take the moral high ground and say, we don’t want to be like the Republicans so we will never use a declaration for a national emergency, but you know that’s not the case and you know they want to do it, that’s why Pelosi said, this could backfire on the Republicans, now why would she say that if she really thinks what Trump is doing is so bad? She doesn’t have to make that threat, but she does because she and the Dems know they want to do the same thing in the future.
Serrano
Do Democrats actually do anything anymore?
SuperLib
On the bright side, "winning" for the GOP will be to show support for a widely unpopular wall in order to protect Trump. It also shows that they are on board with transferring more of their power to the Executive Branch. Losing means Trump will have to veto his own party's legislation.
Just an amazing spot Trump and the GOP have put themselves in.
SuperLib
Agreed, Laguna. They think the lawsuit is about a wall. It's not. It's about whether the President has the legal authority to go around Congress by declaring national emergencies for pet projects with minority support. It's about the President being able to raid military funds for strictly political reasons.
The wall will just be the first time it's put into play, if it becomes legal. For future Presidents it will become a permanent fixture.
Laguna
White House statement, 2021:
The GOP better be careful here. They're opening up a Pandora's box with little upside in the short term but plenty down the road.
CrazyJoe
So the rank-and-file Republican argument is, "I won't vote for it because D's can't get to 2/3rds, and they can't get to 2/3rds because I won't vote for it." Excellent. You're still undermining the Republic, you traitors.