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applegrove

(118,576 posts)
Wed May 22, 2019, 03:03 PM May 2019

Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence

Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence

May 22, 2019 at 11:55 am EDT By Taegan Goddard 37 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/05/22/funding-of-1-57-billion-yields-1-7-miles-of-fence/

"SNIP....

“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,” Bloomberg reports.

“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.”

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Funding of $1.57 Billion Yields 1.7 Miles of Fence (Original Post) applegrove May 2019 OP
No one I mean NO ONE knows how to build like he does underpants May 2019 #1
follow the money Fresh_Start May 2019 #2
It's a good thing immigrants can't walk more than two miles at a stretch... Aristus May 2019 #3
You can't make this shit up! MF45 Fraud Man. n/t MFGsunny May 2019 #4
Are we sure Trump isn't pocketing most of it? Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin May 2019 #5
"with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump's wall " keithbvadu2 May 2019 #6
This message was self-deleted by its author applegrove May 2019 #7
1/2 that because..... Slats!!! applegrove May 2019 #8

keithbvadu2

(36,722 posts)
6. "with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump's wall "
Wed May 22, 2019, 05:19 PM
May 2019

"with the $1.57 billion that Congress appropriated last year for President Donald Trump’s wall "

They did?

Response to keithbvadu2 (Reply #6)

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