https://www.google.com/amp/s/news.yahoo.com/amphtml/trump-administration-may-not-hit-205947678.html Trump administration may not hit 2020 border wall goal, official says WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump's administration may fall short of its promise to build 450 miles of wall along the U.S. border with Mexico by the end of next year, a top official said on Tuesday. Trump made the construction of a border wall a centerpiece of his 2016 election campaign, and has continued to focus on building a wall as he seeks re-election next year "Our goal at the end of 2020 was 450 miles," Mark Morgan, acting commission for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. "It's hard right now to be able to say whether we're still going to be able to meet that goal, but I'm confident that we're going to be close." Morgan said that 93 miles of wall had been built so far during the Trump administration. At least 90 miles of that replaced existing structures, according to CBP figures - although Morgan argued during the briefing that all barriers built under Trump should be considered "new." A U.S. federal court order handed down last week that blocks the administration from transferring $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build a border wall could negatively affect the timeline if the ruling is not quickly lifted by an appeals court, Morgan said. Trump administration officials have said for months that they aim to build 450 miles of new and replacement wall by November 2020, when the presidential election will be held. Trump himself has been less exact. He said in April he expected his administration would build "close to 400 miles" of wall within a roughly two-year timeframe. But during a September news conference at the border in San Diego, he said the anticipation was that nearly 500 miles would completed by the end of 2020. The $3.6 billion in military construction funds that have been blocked for use for a border wall represent roughly a third of the approximately $10 billion that the Trump administration has obtained for wall construction. A spending package passed by the House of Representatives on Tuesday would maintain funding for border barriers at $1.37 billion, which Morgan indicated would be used for wall construction. The Senate is expected to take up the spending package before current funding expires at the end of the week.
I.E., bullshit. If this guy gets elected again next year, yer not going to have a wall. Yer gonna' have a hole.
Biden's best approach to really hitting home against Trump is to not argue if the Wall is a good idea or not, but to argue that Trump didn't deliver. Trump wants people to argue with him over the idea of the Wall so he can appear tough. Biden could say things like: If the Wall is such a good idea then why didn't you build it? Even if voters want a Wall, you are not the guy for the job. It's not like you are going to build a Wall or anything, why should voters re-elect you? What else ya got? Trump, I think you are ready to fire yourself over the failure to complete this construction project, I thought you were a builder? Stick to Casinos.
Well, there goes that. https://news.yahoo.com/court-rules-trump-3-6-100105460.html?.tsrc=jtc_news_index
3/450=.007 or 0.7% if you round up In its ruling on Wednesday, the conservative majority on the three-judge panel cited a Supreme Court decision last year which set aside an injunction by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and allowed the administration to use a separate allocation of military construction funds at the southern border. Judges Andrew Oldham and Edith Jones, appointees of Mr. Trump and former President Ronald Reagan, respectively, agreed to grant the administration's request. Judge Stephen Higginson, who was appointed by former President Obama, dissented.
https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/tr...arriers-2020-01-08/?__twitter_impression=true Court allows Trump to use $3.6 billion in military funds to build border barriers
Allows future democrat presidents to do the same for the small price of 3.6 billion(If its not appealed again) Still wont come close to 500 miles by Nov