Donald Trump to break campaign pledges 'by asking Congress for cash to build border wall, not Mexico'
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To secure the money to build it, transition officials have told House Republican leaders they would want to add billions of dollars into the spending bill that needs to pass by April 28 to keep the government open, a senior House GOP source told CNN.
Republicans believe Democrats would not dare shutdown the government over one of Mr Trump's most popular campaign promises.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/06/donald-trump-break-campaign-pledges-asking-congress-cash-build/
CNN's report. in part
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President-elect Donald Trump's transition team has signaled to congressional Republican leaders that his preference is to fund the border wall through the appropriations process as soon as April, according to House Republican officials.
The move would break a key campaign promise when Trump repeatedly said he would force Mexico to pay for the construction of the wall along the border, though in October, Trump suggested for the first time that Mexico would reimburse the US for the cost of the wall.
Trump defended that proposal Friday morning in a tweet, saying the move to use congressional appropriations was because of speed.
"The dishonest media does not report that any money spent on building the Great Wall (for sake of speed), will be paid back by Mexico later!" Trump tweeted Friday.
New York Rep. Chris Collins said Friday that American taxpayers would front the cost for the wall but that he was confident Trump could negotiate getting the money back from Mexico.
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The dishonest media
that American taxpayers would front the cost for the wall
he was confident Trump could negotiate getting the money back
I don't think it's that difficult for Donald Trump to convince Mexico
it's in Mexico best interest to reimburse us
to coerce Mexico into paying for the wall involve controversial measures
and argued that since Democrats backed that bill, they should support efforts to fund the current effort.
And then there's my personal favorite from those very vocal rightie 's who can't say enough about how bad, horrible, dangerous, horrible worthless, nasty, awful all those horrible lefties are
WHO CARES WHO PAYS FOR THE WALL UP FRONT,,,,,,
so, lets see, that makes two of his ( trumps) biggest most popular lies , I mean promises gone south
All in less time then anyone could have imagined...
And doesn't it just get you right there, in your special spot, the way Trump has already pointed his tiny little fingers at both the media and the democrats in a tweet ( and we are all convinced that if he tweets it then it's as if god his self wrote it in stone. , so when he fails to come across with any part of any thing he promised he can refer back to his tweets and prove it was the media and the democrats who caused the whole thing to fail .