Monday 21 December 2020

The Wall is alive and well thanks to Congress

It has taken weeks and weeks of often angry negotiations for Congress finally to agree to a coronavirus stimulus package worth $900 billion. Just before Christmas. But there's a wonderful little item that is separate but inextricably linked to the package to make sure Trump in his final days agrees to sign it and not veto it. Congress has agreed to allow $1.375 billion on The Wall. So even after Trump has left office - assuming he will do so willingly - big money will be spent on the new construction dividing the US from Mexico. So at what point will Congress, under a Democratic president, decides that enough is enough and no more money will be allocated for The Wall. And when that point comes, will the new section of wall actually have a proper purpose or will the bad guys just move their operations elsewhere along the 1,594 mile border to continue their very fnancially-beneficial trade? And will it mean that then and only then Trump's Wall becomes a huge White Elephant. I'm afraid I haven't been to the border since the Trump wall began, so I don't know how impressive it is but it was always a political wall and it always will be a political wall. It's going to be a tricky issue for Biden when he takes over in 30 days. Yes, THIRTY days. The Democrats will be thinking that this $1.375 billion is the last, the very very last chunk of money for Trump's wall. But if Biden cancels The Wall, as it were, there's going to be a rumpus from the Republicans and that could skew other things which he wants to pass into legislation. Just one of the million things a new president has to take into account when he first steps into the Oval Office.

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