Trump says he could use MILITARY to build his wall if Congress won't fund it
Article publisher:
Daily Mail, UK
Article date:
8 September 2018
Article category:
National News
Medium
Article Body:
- DailyMail.com asked the president on Air Force One if he was considering using the Army Corps of Engineers to build his border wall
- Congress has been stingy with a Homeland Security budget for the project, providing barely $3 billion and leaving another $25 billion unfunded
- Pentagon officials say the Corps of Engineers is suited to perform the work and Trump has boasted about budget increases he has won for the Pentagon
- Trump says: 'We have two options: We have military, we have homeland security'
- He also said he won't take a government shutdown off the table if Democrats on Capitol Hill keep playing hardball because of immigration politics
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He believes a [government] shutdown would be strategically and politically smart...
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Ann Coulter To Those Who Say Trump Lacks Authority To Build Wall — ‘Pull Out Your Pocket Constitution’, Ann Coulter, Daily Caller, September 8, 2018:
...The Fox News host then asked Coulter what she would say to those who say “you need Congress to build the wall.”
“Pull out your pocket Constitution and see who the commander in chief is, who has all the executive branch power in his hands,” said Coulter. “He has the Department of Defense. He has Homeland Security. I mean, if we were suddenly attacked by China, he wouldn’t sit around — or North Korea — he wouldn’t sit around saying ‘Well, I would like to respond, but Congress just will not write that bill.’ He’d say ‘No, I am the commander in chief, I have the power to an defend against an invasion. We’re being invaded.'”
Colter added that other than entitlements, “90 percent of all federal money is in the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Defense, and this [border security] is both homeland security and defense.”
“Did he have to get a special bill when we bombed Syria?” asked Coulter. “By mistake, it turned out. No, obviously there are discretionary funds there, and they don’t need to be spent just to send off bombs to make Boeing even richer than they already are for no purpose at all.”
“Of course you can build a wall,” she added later. “That is most of what the military did for the first 100 years. We weren’t going around remaking the rest of the world. It was the military building forts on our border. Defending American borders is the number one job of the commander in chief.”
Business-First GOP Prepares Post-Election Border-Wall Trap for Trump, Breitbart, September 8, 2018.