Fat hurts wrote:
agip wrote:
Or option 5: Lie, claim the wall was built, and his people will believe it.
Most likely he'll combine option 5 with Option 6: find some federal bucks in a bucket somewhere and throw it at the wall. A few billion isn't much money to the feds.
Ann Coulter won't let him get away with Option 5.
I'm not sure if Option 6 is a real possibility. If a big enough pot of money existed, why hasn't he already grabbed it?
Because trump can't look ahead past lunchtime, and he thought the Rs would hold on to congress.
Here are some ways trump may be able to build a wall without congress, per CNN:
Accessing Treasury forfeiture funds
An estimated $680 million
Would not require the President to declare a national emergency.
Includes unobligated funds from participating agencies that can be used to support law enforcement activities.
After the Office of Management and Budget reviews the order, Treasury and the Department of Homeland Security would both notify Congress then wait 15 days before the funds can be obligated.
Acquisition of land is allowed under this option.
Using USC 284 to divert some Pentagon funds for counter-narcotics
An estimated $700 million
May not require the President to declare a national emergency, according to a CRS legal report.
DHS must exercise a waiver to transfer counter-drug funds to construct fencing to block drug smuggling.
DHS asks Department of Defense to assist after identifying a location where a fence is needed to block drug smuggling corridor.
Using USC 2808 to gain access to military construction funds
An estimated $3.6 billion
Would require the President to declare a national emergency.
Would require the use of the military.
The President would declare border protection a Defense Department mission.
Use Army Corps civil works funds using USC 2293
An estimated $3 billion
May require the President to declare a national emergency, but could also be used without a national emergency, according to a CRS legal report.
The Secretary of the Army may stop or defer Army civil works projects and apply funds to help build civil defense projects essential for the national defense (Secretary of the Army makes the final determination if essential to national defense)
The unspent funds that could be used are now designated to go toward Army Corps of Engineers projects to repair infrastructure damaged by natural disasters.