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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by lbj:
The funds for The Wall were appropriated by Congress years ago and sitting around untapped waiting to be spent on a wall.

I seriously doubt that those funds were "untapped" and that they still are intact.

flashguy

Yeah. No way there is $XX billion sitting around waiting that was spent before it was appropriated

Oh snap!

^^^^Nice!

I wish!

One thing I heard Cavuto mention was the way Trump announces and signs executive actions. While most presidents have an aid release the details and then pretty much just show the president signing Trump does it different. While people may have an idea what it is, Trump announces it, describes what it entails to the American people, and then signs it. All in public view. It kind of struck me that yea, he is taking the time to explain everything he is doing. It does seem a little different and I do like it.

What's all this horseshit about using the endangered species act to stop the wall?

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by lbj:
The funds for The Wall were appropriated by Congress years ago and sitting around untapped waiting to be spent on a wall.

I seriously doubt that those funds were "untapped" and that they still are intact.

flashguy

From Breitbart last November:

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Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) was optimistic about the prospects of President-elect Donald Trump being able to follow through with his campaign promises of a border wall.


Gohmert told “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy that there has been money already appropriated for the wall and that he was excited about the prospects of Trump “actually following the law.”

“It’s amazing what you can get Congress to do when you lead and push them in the right direction,” Gohmert said. “And actually, you know, we had appropriated money during the Bush administration that didn’t get spent for the wall. So, yeah, it’s going to be great to have somebody that’s actually following the law.”

“We’re going to be able to get this done,” he added. “It’s going to happen.”

Link

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Originally posted by entropy:
So not only will Mexico pay for it, but the illegals themselves will build the wall.

This
Is
Genius

Just make sure they finish up on the Mexican side.

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Originally posted by Paragon:
What's all this horseshit about using the endangered species act to stop the wall?

I would expect dozens of lawsuits at multiple locations along the wall to be filed on a plethora of environmental claims. They will do their best to tie it up in court for years.

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Originally posted by Paragon:
What's all this horseshit about using the endangered species act to stop the wall?

horseshit

is everyone ready for week 2 ?

Making America a better place and causing liberal heads to explode. Can it get any better?

Since when has whether or not the money is there stopped the government from doing something if they set their minds to it? Should it matter, of course, but it rarely does.

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Originally posted by JALLEN:

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Originally posted by flashguy:

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Originally posted by lbj:
The funds for The Wall were appropriated by Congress years ago and sitting around untapped waiting to be spent on a wall.

I seriously doubt that those funds were "untapped" and that they still are intact.

flashguy

From Breitbart last November:

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Friday on Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) was optimistic about the prospects of President-elect Donald Trump being able to follow through with his campaign promises of a border wall.


Gohmert told “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy that there has been money already appropriated for the wall and that he was excited about the prospects of Trump “actually following the law.”

“It’s amazing what you can get Congress to do when you lead and push them in the right direction,” Gohmert said. “And actually, you know, we had appropriated money during the Bush administration that didn’t get spent for the wall. So, yeah, it’s going to be great to have somebody that’s actually following the law.”

“We’re going to be able to get this done,” he added. “It’s going to happen.”

Link

Appropriated just means they set aside as a budgeted item. We're deficit spending and have been for years, when he says untapped, that just means we were planning on spending money we don't have anyway. To say we have the money laying around is foolish at best...

This money is in a box right next to the empty one labelled "Social Security Trust Fund"...

http://www.washingtonexaminer.....WIvS3oF7CYk.twitter

The Secret Service has placed the senior special agent who wrote a Facebook post decrying "taking a bullet" for Trump on administrative leave while the agency investigates her social media activities.

An agency spokeswoman on Friday afternoon informed the Washington Examiner of the management action, which takes the agent off the job with pay while the investigation proceeds.

The move is a sign that the agency is taking the investigation against Kerry O'Grady, the agent who wrote the Facebook post, seriously. Critics, however, question why it took the agency three months and a report in the Washington Examiner earlier this week for it to initiate the probe.

The Secret Service said its Office of Professional Responsibility, or RES, its main internal ethics entity, is investigating the matter. Joseph Clancy, the director of the Secret Service, sent an email to all employees Wednesday night notifying them of the formal probe, and asking them for "patience while the RES conducts their investigation."

If the Beast had won, she'd still be on a victory tour, Willie would be lining up interns for counseling, Clinton Foundation checks would be rolling in. Nightmare avoided.

President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that he said would provide a thorough vetting of refugees to ensure that terrorists cannot get into the United States.

"I'm establishing new vetting measures to keep radical Islamic terrorists out of the United States of America,” Trump said at a signing ceremony at the Pentagon.

"We don't want them here. We want to ensure that we are not admitting into our country the very threats our soldiers are fighting overseas. We only want to admit those into our country who support our country and love deeply our people."

The White House released text of the order on Friday evening, which indefinitely blocks refugees from war-torn Syria from entering the U.S. and suspends all refugee admissions for 120 days while the administration determines which countries pose the least risk.

It also caps total refugee admissions for fiscal year 2017 at 50,000 — less than half of the 110,000 proposed by President Obama.

Trump's order declares that the entry of Syrian refugees "is detrimental to the interests of the United States" and denies their entry "until such time as I have determined that sufficient changes have been made to the [U.S. Refugee Admissions Program] to ensure that admission of Syrian refugees is consistent with the national interest.

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and another one:

President Trump on Friday afternoon signed an executive memorandum that he said would spark a "great rebuilding" of the United States military.

"First, I’m signing an executive action to begin a great rebuilding of the armed services of the United States, developing a plan for new planes, new ships new resources, and new tools for our men and women in uniform, and I’m very proud to be doing that," he said at the Pentagon.

The executive action calls on Trump's newly minted Defense secretary James Mattis — who was sworn in by Trump at the Pentagon on Friday — to conduct reviews and make recommendations aimed at bolstering the military and U.S. nuclear capabilities.

Mattis was instructed to conduct a 30-day “readiness review" of the armed forces to assess "readiness conditions, including training, equipment maintenance, munitions, modernization, and infrastructure" and submit a report about actions that can be implemented within the fiscal year.

The document also calls for a joint review from the Pentagon and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to craft a budget amendment that would boost military spending this year and give Mattis the ability to make changes to his agency’s budget proposal for 2018 within 90 days.

Mattis is also tasked with reviewing the United States' ballistic missile and nuclear systems to "ensure that the United States nuclear deterrent is modern, robust, flexible, resilient, ready, and appropriately tailored to deter 21st-century threats and reassure our allies."

http://thehill.com/policy/defe...dernize-nuke-arsenal

http://thehill.com/policy/nati...rder-to-vet-refugees

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Originally posted by sdy:
is everyone ready for week 2 ?

No! The winning! Too much! Getting sick of the winning!

Hell yes I'm ready for week 2!!!!!!!!

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Originally posted by mod29:

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Originally posted by sdy:
is everyone ready for week 2 ?

No! The winning! Too much! Getting sick of the winning!

Hell yes I'm ready for week 2!!!!!!!!

I think President Trump is kicking some real ass with a pen and phone. Oh, winning is cool. That is all.

I'm not sure I can handle this much winning!