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By Amber Phillips
@byamberphillips
January 6 at 10:20 AM
If Donald Trump's vision that Mexico would pay for his border wall seems unrealistic, the notion that taxpayers are going to pay for it is likely just as unrealistic, say budget experts.
And yet that's exactly what it looks like Republicans are planning to do: The Post's Mike DeBonis reports that in the decided absence of an agreement from Mexico to pay for it (their leaders have scoffed at the idea), Republicans in Congress are looking at how to fund a wall or fence of indeterminate billions of dollars with taxpayer money, and then hope Mexico pays for it later.
But moving forward with that plan would put Republicans and Trump in some very awkward political positions, and it could even lead to a potential government shutdown this spring.
This would be a huge and ridiculous overreach by Republicans, said nonpartisan budget expert Stan Collender. ... Let's break down how funding a border wall could go south real quickly for Republicans in Washington.
Wounded Bear
(58,773 posts)Repub motto:
Never do today what you can put off to tomorrow.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)could go wrong. Seems to me,there is a large Native Reservation that straddles the Border,that is a Treaty Issue with Mexico and the USA. And there is a certain well connected Religious Family Group who owns tens of thousands of Acres of Ranch land in Mexico as well as land in the USA on the border.
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)is a tough one. The Native American Reservation is on both sides of the border and I believe it is a Treaty Issue And the Other Group has way more Power and Sway than one thinks,and descendants of this Order are Senators and Congress people .
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)I can see the Rs ramrodding a new definition... and starting a war or something like one.
Nothing is within reason anymore with them so... they'll make something up and try to make it stick like they do with everything else.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)This is a Treaty we are dealing with,and if they open that can of worms,oh boy,that opens all Native Treaties in the USA and Canada.
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)and I wouldn't put it past them to create that shitstorm. They want to kill the USof A and are racing full scream ahead into the abyss with us all attached.
progressoid
(50,013 posts)I see something like a return to the 1960s protest marches when I got my first whiff of tear gas.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)terrorist classifications. It isn't looking pretty.
2naSalit
(86,920 posts)I've been labeled an ecoterrorist by Wcheney's cabal for protesting stupidity.
Vinca
(50,326 posts)Republicans take charge, run the country off the cliff and Democrats will have to come in and clean up the mess. How many times has this happened? How many times have they pimped trickle down economics? We're headed toward a Sam Brownback scenario.