Hey dumb fuck, did you even read the article you posted? Obviously not.
“The 2018 omnibus spending bill provides just enough funds to build 33 miles of fencing on the Texas border — but it also provides $500 million to help Jordan build a wall and defense line against jihad terrorists trying to cross its 287-mile border with Iraq and Syria,” Brietbart.com analyst Neil Munro wrote in a report published March 22, 2018.
“The omnibus budget says on page 394: SEC. 9011. Up to $500,000,000 of funds appropriated by this Act for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency in ”Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’ may be used to provide assistance to the Government of Jordan to support the armed forces of Jordan and to enhance security along its borders,” Mr. Munro noted."
500 Million to build a security fence, or wall, on 287 miles of border.
5.7 Billion to build how many miles of a fantasy wall on the Southern border?
BTW, how much of a "kick back" do you think Trump is planning ion getting?
https://www.salon.com/2018/02/01/could-trumps-big-beautiful-wall-be-a-profit-engine-for-him/
There's one largely unnoticed aspect of the wall project that should be carefully considered by any Democrat who's considering a vote for the wall in exchange for protections for Dreamers: The extraordinary potential for graft and corruption that would likely be built into any Trump-friendly scheme to build the damn thing.
The Texas Tribune and ProPublica published a joint report on Tuesday detailing the legal battle over a kickback scheme that grew out of construction efforts on the Bush-era version of the wall. Hidalgo County, Texas, is suing a man named Godfrey Garza Jr., accusing him of masterminding an elaborate conspiracy to use federal funds to build a border barrier in order to enrich himself and his family at the taxpayer expense.
Garza, who was director of the county’s drainage district, "cajoled company executives to hire a firm owned by his family in exchange for a cut of lucrative construction contracts, according to new documents filed in state district court" writes Kiah Collier of the Texas Tribune and T. Christian Miller of ProPublica. Hidalgo County officials allege that Garza's company, Valley Data, paid bribes to get lucrative government contracts but then failed to do any work outside of being "a kickback vehicle and money laundering machine.”
The entire debacle, Miller and Collier write, raises "additional questions about Homeland Security’s oversight" process.
