The Donald Trump Score Card

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    Trump says EPA to issue notice to San Francisco on homeless
    Alex Dobuzinskis, Dan Whitcomb
    September 18, 2019 / 9:09 PM

    Trump says EPA to issue notice to San Francisco on homeless - Reuters

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    "Trump said the issue was an environmental one because “tremendous pollution”, including syringes used by homeless addicts to inject drugs, was flowing into the Pacific Ocean from Bay Area cities.

    Earlier in the day, U.S. Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson rejected requests from California for more money to fight homelessness, saying the Trump administration was already doing its part."
     
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    The origin of the gentlemen's agreement between the Pentagon and House for repurposed Pentagon money.



    Punishment for border wall money transfer could pinch Pentagon
    Lawmakers want to remind the White House who holds the power of the purse
    Andrew Clevenger
    Posted Apr 11, 2019 5:03 AM

    Punishment for border wall money transfer could pinch Pentagon

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    "To tap into that $6 billion, the Defense Department ordinarily asks for permission from the top Democrats and Republicans on the four congressional defense committees: the Armed Services panels and the Defense Appropriations subcommittees.

    But this arrangement cannot be codified into law because a 1983 Supreme Court ruling in INS v. Chadha determined that a single chamber of Congress could not have veto power over an executive branch action. To do so is to exercise the power of the legislative branch, which must be bicameral in order to be constitutional, the court ruled.

    The workaround, McCord said, was the “gentleman’s agreement” in which the Pentagon requested permission it was not legally required to obtain. So the White House’s decision to shift $1 billion from Army accounts to help fund the border wall was legal but amounted to the Pentagon sticking a finger in the eye of Congress.

    “All of this is built on this understanding of comity,” McCord said. “Trust is really the foundation of flexibility between the committees and the department.”"
     
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    6,100,000,000 / (336*5280) = $3438 per foot



    So Far, $1.57 Billion for Wall Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence
    By Edvard Pettersson
    May 21, 2019, 6:20 PM EDT
    Updated on May 22, 2019, 2:54 PM EDT

    Bloomberg - Are you a robot?

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    "In all, $6.1 billion in funding has been committed since 2017 for the wall, both to Customs and Border Protection and the Defense Department, for 336 miles, according to the report."
     
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    Trump and his advocates need to lay out a meaningful assessment as to why they think the repurposed money from counter-narcotics and construction programs is better spent on the wall.

    The Pentagon, on Trump's order, simply repurposed the money and didn't even bother to ask for consent from the House.



    The Pentagon is putting $1 billion toward the wall — and House Democrats can’t stop them
    The Department of Defense has always asked Congress for permission to move money around. Until now.
    By Dara Linddara
    Mar 26, 2019, 3:00pm EDT

    The Pentagon is putting $1 billion toward the wall — and House Democrats can’t stop them

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    "In context, the $1 billion transferred this week doesn’t look that big. But the fact that the Pentagon is willing to break with standard practice — and pick a funding fight with Congress for next year — to put that money toward the border is an indication of just how much the executive branch is backing the president up on his top priority — and how much energy congressional Democrats will have to spend fighting it."
     
  6. wooleeheron

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    Build it, and they will come. Fuck congress, fuck the supreme court, and fuck Donald Duck and the American people, who all deserve what they've got coming.
     
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    Those who lost money to Trump's vanity wall are frustrated, particularly Republican politicians who face re-election in states that lost funding.

    Trump's approach of declaring a national emergency, diverting money, and trying to backfill later is very different from his claim that he would make Mexico finance it.

    Backfilling of repurposed money is another circumvention of congressional intent in addition to the Pentagon not obtaining permission from Congress to repurpose the money.. .

    Backfilling is unlikely now that Trump has infuriated the House with his heavy-handed circumvention tactic.




    Trump’s move to put $3.6 billion in military funding toward the border wall could hurt GOP senators
    Jacob Pramuk
    Published Fri, Sep 6 2019 12:14 PM EDTUpdated Fri, Sep 6 2019 2:20 PM EDT

    Trump's move to put $3.6 billion in military funding toward the border wall could hurt GOP senators

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    "Though Tillis faces a primary challenger and a potentially competitive general election next year, prognosticators generally consider him less vulnerable than McSally or Gardner. Still, he could face political backlash as the Trump administration will transfer a major chunk of change out of the state: $80 million from three sites. More than $32 million of the sum, funds to replace an elementary school at Fort Bragg, was previously canceled.

    The Democrats running in the primary to challenge Tillis piled on the senator over the pulled funding. Former state Sen. Cal Cunningham argued Tillis “caved to partisan pressure in Washington and put his own self-serving politics ahead of what’s best for our security.”

    Erica Smith, a Democratic North Carolina state senator, tweeted Thursday that bases “will be cheated out of” money. She asked Tillis to explain why the defense money “will now fund the president’s vanity project.”"



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    No New School at Fort Campbell: The Money Went to Trump’s Border Wall
    By Helene Cooper
    Sept. 5, 2019

    The New York Times: Digital and Home Delivery Subscriptions

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    "WASHINGTON — For almost two decades, families at Fort Campbell, the sprawling Army base along the Kentucky-Tennessee border, have borne the brunt of the country’s war efforts as a steady clip of troops with the 101st Airborne Division and from Special Operations units deployed to Afghanistan and Iraq.

    This week, the families discovered that they would not get the new middle school they were expecting so that President Trump could build his border wall. The school is on the list of 127 projects, touching nearly every facet of American military life, that will be suspended to shift $3.6 billion to the wall.

    The Pentagon’s decision to divert $62.6 million from the construction of Fort Campbell’s middle school means that 552 students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades will continue to cram themselves in, 30 to a classroom in some cases, at the base’s aging Mahaffey Middle School. Teachers at Mahaffey will continue to use mobile carts to store their books, lesson plans and homework assignments because there is not enough classroom space. Students stuffed into makeshift classrooms-within-classrooms will continue to strain to figure out which lesson to listen to and which one to filter out.

    And since the cafeteria at Mahaffey is not big enough to seat everyone at lunchtime, some students will continue to eat in the school library."
     
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  9. On the bright side, it might have been the first cut in defense spending in the history of the US.
     
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  10. Vanilla Gorilla

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    Could ask the same question about Clinton and Kosovo
     
  11. wooleeheron

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    What a load of crap. Donald Duck was elected against the wishes of the republicans in the house, precisely because their own constituents thought they were too corrupt to be trusted to do what had to be done. He is doing exactly what he was elected to do, which is to destroy his own government if necessary. Libertarians have been the dog wagging the tail for decades, and have become self-destructive. They are lucky they got Donald Duck instead Adolf Hitler, because they would all be labeled terrorists instead of total idiots.

    Your commander-in-chief is inciting his own troops to assassinate him, and his Generals to replace his ass the minute he declares martial law.
     
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    Repurposing has the propensity to become an increase in overall military spending.

    The tactic of Trump is to repurpose money for his wall by circumventing Congress. This isn't a spending cut.

    The intent after the repurposing is to backfill the projects from which the repurposed money was taken, which effectively is an increase in overall military spending. Trump gets the wall money, The money taken from other projects is supplied by a later budget with new taxpayer money. It's a roundabout way of obtaining and spending additional tax money on a wall.

    One of the problems with the approach of Trump is that it gives a black eye to the House which may alter the repurposing rules to make it more restrictive on the Pentagon. Another is that the House is less likely to be willing to backfill projects because it is another type of circumvention of Congress to try to make up for problems caused by the previous repurposing circumvention.
     
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    What about Mckinley and the Philippines?
     
  14. Vanilla Gorilla

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    I'm surprised one of you noticed.

    Back when the news of the federal budget came out, none of you noticed how much of it was military spending
     
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    Our PM calls his plane Shark 1

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    Captain Horatio Whistleblower

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