Wednesday, February 15, 2017

An expensive, useless wall: Cost estimates for Trump’s border boondoggle run higher than promised (Salon)

President Donald Trump campaigned on a pledge to build a nation-securing barrier along the southern border to protect the country from undocumented immigrants, and he insisted that Mexico would be forced to foot the bill. After winning election, Trump changed his position: U.S. taxpayers would pay up front for the wall, and Mexico would reimburse us (somehow) on the back end.

But don't worry,"the wall" would be cheap. Trump said building the wall wouldn't cost all that much money — ...
http://www.salon.com/2017/02/10/an-expensive-useless-wall-cost-estimates-for-trumps-border-boondoggle-run-higher-than-promised/

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