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Yosemito

(648 posts) Fri Jan 11, 2019, 09:24 AM Jan 2019

Shutdown will soon cost more than the wall [View all]

By Friday, S&P Global estimates the shutdown will have cost the economy $3.6bn. Within two weeks, the firm says losses from the shutdown will be larger than the cost of the wall itself.

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-46815847

Maybe the GoFundMe nut will pay for the shutdown.

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Shutdown will soon cost more than the wall [View all] Yosemito Jan 2019 OP

I've read thst it would costs upwards of $30 billion to build the wall along the entire border. CentralMass Jan 2019 #1

Yep. The 5 billion is just a "down payment". AJT Jan 2019 #2