WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump in his Saturday morning Twitter posts tackles three subjects: his visit with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe;
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump in his Saturday morning Twitter posts tackles three subjects: his visit with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe; his rage against the U. S. “legal system;” and a boast that he will get the cost of his border wall “way down.”
Consider: Because a U. S. district court judge and a three-judge appellate panel has ruled against Trump in his travel ban case, the president is deeming the legal system “broken.”
On to the Saturday Twitter posts .
“The report’s estimated price-tag is much higher than a $12-billion figure cited by Trump in his campaign and estimates as high as $15 billion from Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell,” Reuters reported. “The report seen by Reuters is the work of a group commissioned by (Secretary John) Kelly as a final step before moving forward with requesting U. S. taxpayer funds from Congress and getting started on construction.”
Trump’s signature campaign pledge is he will build a border wall along the U. S. southern border with Mexico – and will get Mexico to pay for it. Since becoming president Jan. 20, Trump has been challenged to make that promise a reality, especially since Mexico has made it clear it won’t pay. If Trump wants planning for a wall to start, he will have to convince Congress to put up the money. Fiscally conservative Republicans may balk at this massive spending of U. S. taxpayer money. Trump’s first sales job is to convince his fellow Republicans to appropriate the money.
Now about that 77 percent .
The nations at issue in Trump’s order are Syria, Iran, Iraq, Yemen, Sudan, Somalia and Libya.
According to the PEW Research Center, “Of the 84,995 refugees admitted to the United States in fiscal year 2016, the largest numbers came from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Syria, Burma (Myanmar) and Iraq.”
