Border Patrol releases drone footage showing miles of ‘new wall system’ being built

MM betrayed his constituency for Trump

I said no new fund for anything in the military until there is some way to prevent a President from just using it to fund his political pet project.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/05/us/trump-border-wall-military-families.html

This week, the families discovered that they would not get the new middle school they were expecting so that President Trump could build his border wall. The school is on the list of 127 projects, touching nearly every facet of American military life, that will be suspended to shift $3.6 billion to the wall.

The Pentagon’s decision to divert $62.6 million from the construction of Fort Campbell’s middle school means that 552 students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades will continue to cram themselves in, 30 to a classroom in some cases, at the base’s aging Mahaffey Middle School. Teachers at Mahaffey will continue to use mobile carts to store their books, lesson plans and homework assignments because there is not enough classroom space. Students stuffed into makeshift classrooms-within-classrooms will continue to strain to figure out which lesson to listen to and which one to filter out.

And since the cafeteria at Mahaffey is not big enough to seat everyone at lunchtime, some students will continue to eat in the school library.

“Most of our students don’t know what it’s like to live in a world without war, where you don’t have to worry about Mom or Pop being killed,” said Jane Loggins, a Fort Campbell teacher who is the director of the Federal Education Association’s Stateside Region, the teachers’ union for the Defense Department’s education system in the United States and Guam. “The one big benefit of this school is that we try to support all those emotional needs.”

In normal times, the Fort Campbell middle school project would have a powerful political ally in Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader. In a January op-ed in The Louisville Courier-Journal headlined “Here’s How Kentucky Families Benefit From McConnell’s Clout in D.C.,” Mr. McConnell boasted that he had “secured much-needed assistance for Fort Campbell, Fort Knox and the Blue Grass Army Depot, helping the men and women serving there keep America safe.”

But that was before Mr. Trump declared in February that there was a national emergency at the border with Mexico, allowing him to divert money from military projects without first getting approval from Congress. The next month, Mr. McConnell backed the president in a Senate vote on the national emergency declaration. (Kentucky’s other senator, the Republican Rand Paul, voted against Mr. Trump.)

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Two active-duty military service members in Fort Campbell said on Thursday that they believed Mr. McConnell would step in to save the middle school. One of the service members, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because she did not want to be identified discussing the issue, said families had been waiting for the new school for three years.

 

So far no new wall build anywhere yet. Rebuild of existing wall is going way over budget. And of course, we all are paying for all of it.

11B has been allocated (6b stolen from the military) and trump is asking for another 5b.

 

What a joke. If a wall was going to be built, it should have been built over 30 years ago.

 

Trump found an even better way to piss away money than betting on the Knicks, I'm stunned.

 

it's call deportation