Post by the Scribe on Aug 31, 2020 1:28:03 GMT
most wall replacement wall and not additional miles
We have already built 300 miles of border wall, and we are adding 10 new miles every single week. The wall will soon be complete. And it is working beyond our wildest expectations.
Four years ago, Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for the wall he wanted to build along the U.S.-Mexico border. Since then, the administration says 275 miles of that wall have been built. Mexico has not paid a penny. While Congress has authorized some spending for the project, most of the money for wall construction has been redirected from the military at the president’s insistence. Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon participated in a private effort to raise money for a border wall. Last week, Bannon and three others were indicted on charges that they siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars each from the wall fund for their own personal use. Bannon has pleaded not guilty.
www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-wall-system
www.npr.org/2020/02/13/805796618/trump-administration-diverts-3-8-billion-in-pentagon-funding-to-border-wall
www.npr.org/2020/08/20/904245273/steve-bannon-arrested-in-scheme-to-raise-money-for-trumps-border-wall
Scott Horsley
NPR Chief Economics Correspondent
We have already built 300 miles of border wall, and we are adding 10 new miles every single week. The wall will soon be complete. And it is working beyond our wildest expectations.
Four years ago, Donald Trump promised that Mexico would pay for the wall he wanted to build along the U.S.-Mexico border. Since then, the administration says 275 miles of that wall have been built. Mexico has not paid a penny. While Congress has authorized some spending for the project, most of the money for wall construction has been redirected from the military at the president’s insistence. Trump’s former political strategist Steve Bannon participated in a private effort to raise money for a border wall. Last week, Bannon and three others were indicted on charges that they siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars each from the wall fund for their own personal use. Bannon has pleaded not guilty.
www.cbp.gov/border-security/along-us-borders/border-wall-system
www.npr.org/2020/02/13/805796618/trump-administration-diverts-3-8-billion-in-pentagon-funding-to-border-wall
www.npr.org/2020/08/20/904245273/steve-bannon-arrested-in-scheme-to-raise-money-for-trumps-border-wall
Scott Horsley
NPR Chief Economics Correspondent