House Passes $788 Billion Spending Bill For Military, Mexico Border Wall
Source: Talking Points Memo
By Associated Press Published JULY 27, 2017 5:39 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) The House has passed a $788 billion spending bill that combines a $1.6 billion down payment for President Donald Trumps controversial border wall with Mexico with a whopping budget increase for the Pentagon.
The 235-192 vote both eases a large backlog of unfinished spending bills and gives Trump and his House GOP allies political wins heading into the August recess. Significant hurdles remain in front of the measure, which will meet with more powerful Democratic opposition in the Senate.
A potential government shutdown battle over the U.S.-Mexico wall looms this fall. The generous defense spending increases also run afoul of strict spending limits set by an earlier budget law.
For now, however, Republicans controlling the House cheered the measures help for military readiness and generous increases for veterans.
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And now the taxpayers are going to make a berlin type wall, when 41.6 billion could be used for roads, schools, and such, no wonder this country is going to hell in a hand basket
TEB
(12,872 posts)We are building a coyote urinal , and not subsidizing education or school lunches. We have GOP serial killers in elected office who wants to pass trump eugenics bill and repeal the ACA.
turbinetree
(24,713 posts)left-of-center2012
(34,195 posts)turbinetree
(24,713 posts)we don't have word for sexual predator
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)of Trump LIES!
IronLionZion
(45,514 posts)by providing good exercise for the wall builders and for the people making ladders taller to climb over it. It's good exercise to climb the wall or dig under it or swim around it.
Owl
(3,643 posts)Matthew28
(1,798 posts)To educate our children, to give our people healthcare or to fix our infrastructure. Pure idiocy.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)But never ending BILLIONS for our bloated MIC and a useless wall!
angrychair
(8,732 posts)Is it a wall tall enough to keep out planes? Because that is how 90% of illegal immigration occurs. Just saying
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The jokes on us.
BigmanPigman
(51,624 posts)for his ridiculous plan/tweet. His budget committee told him he needed to do this but he didn't even consult with the military first.
This is what happens when idiots elect a novice to "shake things up in DC".
Bengus81
(6,932 posts)Just like the good ole' days with Saint Ronnie.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)The MIC has a ravenous appetite for those sweet sweet taxpayer dollars!
defacto7
(13,485 posts)to bankrupt and disband the country. They're doing a great job of that.
Going to hell with that hand basket.
Judi Lynn
(160,598 posts)How are Republicans supposed to reconcile their own enormous Berlin Wall with images of incompetent actor, Ronald Reagan, pompously announcing, "Mr. Gorbachev, take down this wall."
Many of us were encouraged by corporate media to admire the old fart for pushing the Eastern Germans to remove their wall, after years of raving about nutty old Russians and East Germans who wanted to keep their wall out, and keep Germans from trying to heroically reach the US, to revel in God's great blessing, US Freedom!
More_Cowbell
(2,191 posts)"new funds for members of Congress to increase their personal security."
So they'll still allow guns everywhere, but *they* will be safe.
benld74
(9,909 posts)turbinetree
(24,713 posts)is that China is making alliances with countries in Africa, for the resources, China is making alliances in Afghanistan for the resources, so what is this country doing to make alliances, they want to use military force and have a asshole in the white house and the Congress wanting to make war and not alliances---------------the beginning of a crumbling economic power
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/13/business/china-railway-one-belt-one-road-1-trillion-plan.html
hay rick
(7,636 posts)pfitz59
(10,388 posts)and ensured the bill's passage. Throwing LGBQT folk of the altar of political expediency...