$7.2 Billion More for The Wall

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Trump reportedly plans to divert more money from the US military to pay for the border wall

David Choi
Jan 14, 2020

Reuters/Kevin LamarquePresident Donald Trump speaks while participating in a tour of US-Mexico border wall prototypes near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California.
  • The Trump administration is preparing to divert $US7.2 billion from the Pentagon’s budget to fund the president’s US-Mexico border wall this year, according to a Washington Post report published Monday.
  • The reported figure is five times greater than $US1.4 billion Congress allotted for the project in the 2019 and 2020 federal budget.
  • The new plan suggests the administration will increase the amount taken from military construction projects to $US3.7 billion.
  • According to the plan, the administration is also preparing to divert $US3.5 billion from the military’s counter-drug operations, which is $US1 billion more than it took in 2019.
 
vanzandt said:
  • According to the plan, the administration is also preparing to divert $US3.5 billion from the military’s counter-drug operations, which is $US1 billion more than it took in 2019.
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red hats in opioid stricken Appalachia rejoicing in the streets.
 
vanzandt said:
Trump reportedly plans to divert more money from the US military to pay for the border wall

David Choi
Jan 14, 2020

Reuters/Kevin LamarquePresident Donald Trump speaks while participating in a tour of US-Mexico border wall prototypes near the Otay Mesa Port of Entry in San Diego, California.
  • The Trump administration is preparing to divert $US7.2 billion from the Pentagon’s budget to fund the president’s US-Mexico border wall this year, according to a Washington Post report published Monday.
  • The reported figure is five times greater than $US1.4 billion Congress allotted for the project in the 2019 and 2020 federal budget.
  • The new plan suggests the administration will increase the amount taken from military construction projects to $US3.7 billion.
  • According to the plan, the administration is also preparing to divert $US3.5 billion from the military’s counter-drug operations, which is $US1 billion more than it took in 2019.
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IMPEACH IMPEACH IMPEACH!!!!
 
vanzandt said:
Well, I guess the Army should have invaded Purdue Pharma when they had the funds then.
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vanzandt said:
I think that can be open for discussion.

Thousands are dying from fentanyl. Meth is certainly getting in. Heroin... despite the ever increasing, insatiable demand, a bindle now costs less now than a 6-pack of Tecate, ironic that both are coming in from Mexico. Our youth are being poisoned and we are losing (by far) way more each year than what we are losing in our numerous military actions around the globe. More than the entire Vietnam War in one year almost. And its getting worse.

2017 was an all-time record. 2018 topped it by September.
It can be argued that's a pretty strong case for a "national emergency". Illegal immigrants aside. We won't have a country left if we don't stop this drug bullsh*t. Its the southern border man. It needs to be secured.

From CDC.gov:

1. Deaths Attributed to Drug Overdose in the US, 2017

Opioids were detected in 47,863 reported deaths, and are predicted to be involved in 49,031 deaths.
Synthetic opioids, excluding methadone, were detected in 28,644 reported deaths, and are predicted to be involved in 28,644 deaths.
Heroin was detected in 15,585 reported deaths, and is predicted to be involved in 15,941 deaths.
Natural and semi-synthetic opioids were detected in 14,553 reported deaths, and are predicted to be involved in 14,940 deaths.
Cocaine was detected in 14,065 reported deaths, and is predicted to be involved in 14,612 deaths.
Psychostimulants with abuse potential were detected in 10,420 reported deaths, and are predicted to be involved in 10,703 deaths.
Methadone was detected in 3,209 reported deaths, and is predicted to be involved in 3,286 deaths.
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vanzandt said:
Nice deflection. Okay, we have two national emergencies, and I can argue the second has some serious underpinnings in the first. Perhaps the wall would help with drug/gang related deaths too.
Pretty sure it would. Gonna debate that?

https://graphics.suntimes.com/homicides/
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vanzandt said:
The H4M quiets....
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Calm your tits, I had shit to do. I fail to see how both thoughts are incongruent. I don't believe there's a crisis at the border; opioid panickers do. I also didn't vote for a guy to counter the "opioid epidemic" who's now welshing on that, red hats did.
 
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