Trump says Mexico is 'not going to write a check' for the wall
Source: CNBC
PUBLISHED 21 MIN AGO
Kevin Breuninger
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President Donald Trump says Mexico will pay for his proposed border wall through the revenue bump Trump hopes will come from a new trade deal pending in Congress.
During the campaign, I said Mexico would pay for it, Trump tells reporters outside the White House. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made, the USMCA.
President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted that Mexico would not directly pay for the construction of his proposed wall along the southern border. Instead, he claims the wall will be paid for by revenue gained from a new trade deal pending in Congress.
During the campaign, I said Mexico would pay for it, Trump told reporters outside the White House. They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made, the USMCA.
That deal, short for the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, was approved by those three nations following lengthy negotiations over a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has long slammed as the single worst deal ever approved.
The Trump administration has provided few details about how the USMCA would lead Mexico to pay for the wall, or if the increased revenue from the Nafta replacement would actually reimburse the U.S. taxpayers who would directly fund the walls construction.
Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/10/trump-says-mexico-is-not-going-to-write-a-check-for-the-wall-contradicting-campaign-pledge.html
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)Turbineguy
(37,372 posts)will depend on bigly he wants the letters of his name.
ProudMNDemocrat
(16,794 posts)All Trump does is LIE.
When is enough is enough?
Sneederbunk
(14,308 posts)Corgigal
(9,291 posts)might buy what you're selling, and you're losing them daily, but the real world doesn't.
Better lie please.
GusBob
(7,286 posts)there is no national emergency then is there?
Izzy Blue
(282 posts)And even if Congress approves a deal it keeps getting pointed out in the media that any revenue from it can not be used for his wall because the money belongs to the taxpayers.
"President Donald Trump says Mexico will pay for his proposed border wall through the revenue bump Trump hopes will come from a new trade deal pending in Congress"
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,045 posts)NCjack
(10,279 posts)The MFer has corrected that imbalance, the increase in money flow to us is rightfully OUR MONEY -- not Mexico's money. He proposes to pay for the wall with OUR adjusted tariff money. That breaks his promise that "Mexico pays for the Wall".
So, who pays for The MFer's Wall? Answer: The US taxpayers.
Bengus81
(6,933 posts)About the same BS nonsense he's using.
Cold War Spook
(1,279 posts)if the trade agreement actually gives businesses and people some type of profits, but even then the government would only get the taxes that corporations and people would pay on that extra money. And how would we or the government know how much of that money is because of the trade agreement. I am going to stop there. My head is ready to explode.
Initech
(100,104 posts)Trump is fucking off his rocker and being fed bad info by a fake news agency. He's losing it big time and he has got to go.
Arazi
(6,829 posts)Link to tweet
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Roy Rolling
(6,938 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)A lot of contractors ask for 1/2 down. So I wanna see Mexico give Donald Trump a check for 50 billion pesos before I'm ok with saying that we should build a concrete wall on the southern border.