Supreme Court Makes Major Ruling On Border Wall
Funds, Ryan Saavedra
The
United States Supreme Court ruled on Friday that President Donald Trump can use
$2.5 billion in military funding to build the border wall along the U.S.
southern border.
USA Today reports that the Supreme Court’s “order temporarily
settles just one of several skirmishes between the Trump administration and
House Democrats, ‘blue’ states led by California, and environmental groups over
border wall funds.”
Trump
responded to the news in a tweet, writing, “Wow! Big VICTORY on the Wall. The
United States Supreme Court overturns lower court injunction, allows Southern
Border Wall to proceed. Big WIN for Border Security and the Rule of Law!”
The
Supreme Court’s ruling will allow the administration to build over 100 miles of
Trump’s border wall along the U.S. southern border in Arizona, New Mexico, and
California, which Bloomberg noted is Trump’s “biggest step yet toward erecting
his long-promised wall.”
“The
30-foot steel bollard fencing will replace barriers that the Trump
administration says are dilapidated and ineffective,” Bloomberg continued.
“Some of those existing barriers are designed only to prevent vehicles from
crossing and don’t stop pedestrians.”
Axios added that the president “wants roughly $8 billion to
build a wall on U.S.-Mexico border, $3.6 billion of which he plans to access
with emergency powers.”
The
five conservative Supreme Court Justices ruled in favor of the Trump administration while the four
liberal justices would not have allowed construction to start.
“The
$2.5 billion had been shifted from various programs including personnel and
recruiting, Minuteman III and air launch cruise missiles, E-3 aircraft upgrades
and the Afghan security forces training fund,” CNN reported.
“The
Pentagon said it was able to move that money due to uncovered cost savings as
part of a process known as ‘reprogramming.’ The money was moved into a Defense
Department counter-drug account that is authorized to spend money on the
construction of border barriers.”
Comments
The Border Wall will
secure the border and save $trillions in costs that would have been necessary
to keep the border secured without a wall. These are personnel costs that are
unsustainable and that’s why Democrats prefer no border. The think government
is a “jobs program”.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody
GA Tea Party Leader
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