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https://apnews.com/a6976f7528974235a46cf8b834bd2c10/The-Latest:--House-OKs-$1.6B-down-payment-for-Trump's-wall

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the House’s $788 billion spending measure (all times local):

2:30 p.m.

The Republican-led House has voted to make a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trump’s long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The vote was 230-196. Republican leaders avoided voting directly on the divisive issue Thursday. Instead, they tucked the wall provision into a broader procedural vote.

Trump promised at nearly every rally and campaign event that Mexico would pay for the wall. Mexico said no, and U.S. taxpayers will have to provide the money.

Democrats said they might have defeated the wall if they’d been given a chance. It’s unpopular with more moderate Republicans and those representing districts with large immigrant communities.

Money for the wall is part of a broader $788 billion spending bill funding defense and veterans programs.

 

[HStallion]

What a monumental waste of money.

 

[yanipheonu]

Can't wait for all the problems this won't solve!

 

[Tagyhag]

Wasn't Mexico supposed to pay for this, Trump?

 

[soundtest]

doesnt the wall need another like 12 billion?

are they going to build a speed bump with this paltry amount?

 

[CopperPuppy]

Isn't this basically what they were saying he gambled the transgender military announcement for? Any truth to that?

 

[Kensation]

But don't worry guys, they're totally being critical of Trump!

 

[mike6467]

Fiscal conservatives, ladies and gentlemen.

 

[DarkKyo]

Lack of healthcare is killing more people than illegal immigrants, why are you routing more money to the wrong places?

 

[Zombie James]

How many people would have health care with that money?

 

[Zolo]

doesnt the wall need another like 12 billion?

are they going to build a speed bump with this paltry amount?

It's worth is in advertisement and bragging on news stations.

 

[Luschient]

Sick and depressing when you think of the good that money could do in the world.

 

[shnurgleton]

Looking forward to hearing about the millions of high paying jobs this pointless flimsy chain link fence will create

 

[Imperfected]

Whew, thank god that Donny's friends in Totally Legitimate Real Estate & Construction Concerns, LLC won't be going hungry.

 

[Dead Prince]

Wasn't Mexico supposed to pay for this, Trump?

 

[Garrett 2U]

Why is this needed when Trump is going to make the best deal with Mexico where they pay for it?

 

[Kurdel]

But wait, Congress isn't Mexico

 

[PopeReal]

Lets waste tons of money on something that will never be finished, and wouldn't matter even if it was.

Or... we have this health care thing.....

 

[commedieu]

What's there left to say?

Oh right. Fuck all Republicans.

 

[Yaphett Kotto]

So many people could have gone through school with that money.

 

[Reptars Revenge]

Whatttt I thought whoever lost the gold cup was going to pay.

 

[Glass Shark]

Fuck their racist asses

 

[darkinstinct]

AFAIK this is not money for the new wall, this is just for fixing the existing one.

 

[Abstrusity]

Reminder, folks. Sledgehammers are relatively cheap. But make sure you get a good pair of gloves and a nice wooden handle, oak works fantastically. The plastic handled sledgehammers don't really hold up to the kind of treatment we will put them through in knocking down that wall, brick by brick if we have to.

 

[somecrazymember]

I'm hoping for greenpeace protesters sitting/camping where wall needs to be built.

But honestly i lost hope. The wall will get done, Trump will be reelected in 2020, He'll push the red button too some time towards some random country

 

[Maxinas]

Good, good. Hopefully it's heavily vandalized, and forces them to spend even more. Taxpayers deserve to suffer for allowing this imbecile into office in the first place.

 

[Slime]

Money for the wall is part of a broader $788 billion spending bill funding defense and veterans programs.

So this money could be going to veterans, but instead it's going toward Trump's stupid fucking imaginary wall?

 

[Kaako]

Wasting $1.6B+ on this colossal waste of time, effort, and money. Fucking hell...

 

[HStallion]

Remember we have to watch out for all those Mexican Shotputters throwing 50 lb bags of drugs over it.

 

[Zubz]

Is there any way this absolute waste of spending can be prevented at this point?

 

[Tom Nook]

Waste of money.

 

[Dalek]

Such a stupid waste of money.

 

[Alcotholic]

Duck spending 1.6 billion on things that actually matter.

 

[Cake Boss]

Small government

Conservative spending

Lol

 

[Akuun]

I still don't understand why tacking an issue onto an unrelated issue is a thing. It makes no sense at all.

Here's a deal about spending $2 million to buy treatment plans for cancer patients. Now, there's a plan attached to this one about spending $230 billion to pour boiling acid on your loved ones. You can only say yes or no to both at once.

No? What do you have against cancer patients? HEY EVERYONE, THIS GUY HATES CANCER PATIENTS

 

[Nekofrog]

There should be tours set up to go and destroy -- I mean see parts of the wall. Pickaxes -- I mean binoculars included with price of your tour.

 

[HStallion]

Is there any way this absolute waste of spending can be prevented at this point?

Well considering how incompetent they are actually implementing all their other shitty ideas we can just hope this one as well spins its wheels over and over again till it gets stuck in a rut.

 

[Pop-O-Matic]

 

[Moonkeis]

Can we have one day where Trump actually does something positive?

 

[Stinkles]

He'll be gone before they lay a single brick. If the senate doesn't flush it beforehand. BTW this funding would pay for all Trans military medical costs for 100 years.

 

[AdventureMike]

Meanwhile, Trump has repeatedly been looking to slash Federal Employee retirement and force us to pay more into it. Gotta pull up those bootstraps and tighten our belts so his wall and the defense budget can get some more money.

I hate this man so much.

 

[JustenP88]

They'll never be able to figure out our revolutionary wall technology

 

[yanipheonu]

I'm hoping for greenpeace protesters sitting/camping where wall needs to be built.

But honestly i lost hope. The wall will get done, Trump will be reelected in 2020, He'll push the red button too some time towards some random country

See, I can get behind the cynicism at the government, but the idea that any large government project like this will get done on time, with Trump no less, is laughable.

I have serious doubts construction even begins before his first term is done.

 

[teruterubozu]

Well considering how incompetent they are actually implementing all their other shitty ideas we can just hope this one as well spins its wheels over and over again till it gets stuck in a rut.

Which means like all construction projects they'll just throw more money at it.

 

[KojiKnight]

doesnt the wall need another like 12 billion?

are they going to build a speed bump with this paltry amount?

20.... likely much more if he gets his solar panels he wants on it as well.

 

[daveo42]

Might as well build the wall with the bodies of the dead, killed by a lack of health insurance.

 

[Imperfected]

There should be tours set up to go and destroy -- I mean see parts of the wall. Pickaxes -- I mean binoculars included with price of your tour.

Woah, hey, you can't just go knocking down that wall. That's going to be honest work for Totally Legitimate Real Estate & Construction Concerns, LLC, once it's cancelled halfway through the long-delayed and suspiciously over-budget construction.

 

[RinsFury]

I want to be there when this worthless monument to hate is torn down. It better be the first action of the next President.

 

[Irishonion]

I can't believe this is still a thing. Ugh.

 

[JABEE]

So, this in conjunction with the story about the Transgendered Soldier Military Ban makes the news story about the ban being done to secure votes for this budget more certain.