US Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles Of Fence (*$920 million per mile)

[kpete]

Last edited Wed May 22, 2019, 09:28 AM - Edit history (2)

*$920 million per mile

U.S. Customs and Border Protection has put up just 1.7 miles of fencing with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border, a federal judge was told.

A lawyer for the U.S. House of Representatives provided the information Tuesday to the judge in Oakland, California, who is weighing requests from 20 state attorneys general and the the Sierra Club to block Trump from using funds not authorized by Congress to build the wall.

"The administration recently provided updated information to Congress on the status of its efforts as of April 30, 2019," the attorney, Douglas Letter, said in a court filing. "Based on that updated information, it appears that CBP has now constructed 1.7 miles of fencing with its fiscal year 2018 funding."

That was 3/4 of a mile more than the administration reported at the end of February, Letter said.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-05-21/federal-wall-funding-of-1-57-billion-yields-1-7-miles-of-fence?srnd=premium

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[democratisphere]

1. Must be 24 karat gold plated at that ridiculous price.

[Javaman]

2. wow, this is nothing like the one with leather and spikes that the orange asshole wanted LOL nt

[struggle4progress]

3. "It's so hard to finf good fencing nowadays!"

Still, $1.57 billion for 1.7 miles looks a lot like $923 million a mile

I'd be willing to install fence for only half of that

[Magoo48]

13. Wonder how much was kicked back to him personally???

[Delmette2.0]

14. +1,000

Or should I say +1,000,000?

[procon]

4. Trump is not getting much for all our tax money.

At the rate he's blowing through cash, it would likely be cheaper, and he'd probably get more bang for the buck, if he'd just hand everyone who shows up at the border a bag of money and a 1st class ticket home.

[Ohiogal]

5. So much for

his “astute” knowledge of construction, finance, and real estate.

[superpatriotman]

6. Mexico will pay for it, right?

I seem to remember some talking anus mentioning that.

[OregonBlue]

7. So he and his fraudster buddies got a 95% skim? WOW?

[Nay]

12. Yep.

[Baitball Blogger]

8. WTF?

[mopinko]

9. trace that steel. i wanna know who got the money.

is it russian steel, or american steel?

[Mopar151]

28. Made in Canada

Dreishkaspa (sic?) is 40% owner of co.

[marble falls]

10. U.S. Wall Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence ... this rate he'll be done in ...

never.

[NewJeffCT]

34. at that rate, the almost 2 thousand miles of fence

will cost upwards of $1.8 trillion

[dlk]

11. Speaking of Government Boondoggles and Supreme Wastes of Taxpayer Money...

[Ilsa]

15. Almost 1 billion dollars per mile? We'll need another $2 trillion.

Since Mexico is paying for it, let's ask them to build it more cheaply. They can't possibly be any more corrupt than Dotard & Associates.

[Ferrets are Cool]

16. This is OUR tax dollars. This is the money we worked our asses off for

America is a fucking disgrace. And for anyone that wants to argue that...we have MURDERED 5 kids this year that just wanted a safe place to live. Nuff said

[ooky]

20. +1

[FiveGoodMen]

32. +2

[Wounded Bear]

17. Easy math! Repeal the Repub tax breaks and we could afford it!

[Buns_of_Fire]

18. I know *I* feel a lot safer now!

Except maybe from the people who walk up to the fence, see that it's under two miles long, and just walk around it. If I thought Comrade Fishlips could read, I'd suggest he look up "Maginot Line" on the Google Machine.

[Amishman]

19. Misleading numbers, they are still building more of the fucking thing

It's not over and they are still building and finishing a lot more if it. They haven't spent much of the $1.5 billion yet.

Don't feel satisfied and let it go, keep fighting and delaying. The money isn't spent and the shit isn't built yet, it can still be stopped.

[logosoco]

21. An obscene waste of money.

I guess the people who are pleased with this are incapable of imagining walking 1.7 miles to get around something? They certainly are incapable of doing math or understanding that immigrants aren't the problem.

[Enoki33]

22. Just saying, somewhere in all of this tRump is personally siphoning

off tax dollars. Likely through some crooked construction company or steel supplier. A leopard never changes it’s spots. Apology to all leopards.

[pandr32]

30. Agreed 100%

[jalan48]

23. Maybe a tidy profit for the corpos involved as well?

[progressoid]

24. Could have saved some money if they had hired undocumented workers to build it.

[yaesu]

25. I wonder how much of the Transportation and Housing and Urban Development bill tRump diverts

to the wall if passed?

[Bayard]

26. WTF?!

I want my money back!

This is an excellent talking point for the Dems in 2020 however. Especially if its proven to not be American steel.

[maxsolomon]

27. This is probably BS

Did they spend their entire $1,570,000,000 allocation on that short distance? Doubt it.

Numbers are fun.

[Laf.La.Dem.]

29. Thank goodness they do not sell ladders in Mexico!!

[BSdetect]

31. Or ropes and grappling hooks.

[demmiblue]

33. ...

[Blue Owl]

35. Diaper Donnie's stunt wall sure is expensive!

n/t