01-11-2019, 01:28 PM
(01-11-2019, 01:12 PM)Maggot Wrote: The wall has already been paid for by Mexico through the reworking of NAFTA.
I haven't seen any details on how that's supposed to be the case.
I've only heard Trump say it as a way to explain why he's shutdown the government in protest of not being allocated billions of dollars in tax payer money towards building a wall which he promised Mexico would pay for.
The revised NAFTA deal hasn't been approved by Congress yet in any case. If Trump wants some of the forecasted future financial benefits to go towards funding the wall, why not take the $1.6 billion agreed-to previously for 2019, open the government so federal employees get paid, and negotiate with Congress to allocate forecasted NAFTA gains to the border barrier in separate legislation?