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The administration said the action did not deviate from Biden's proclamation because money that was allocated during Trump's term in 2019 had to be spent now. Asked by reporters if the border wall works, Biden said "no," but that the administration had to use the money. “I can’t stop that," he said.
Title is a little misleading
This key detail is the thing nearly every news source is leaving out and it's infuriating.
Granted if he wanted to be cheeky he could "spend money on the border wall" and have all that money being used to build aid stations instead of actual walls, or see what loopholes are open to improve working conditions for border patrol agents who would have monitor the wall anyways.
Couldn't he, like, not spend it? Not American, so don't understand why allocated funds need to be spent?
Nope.
Once congress decides to set money to a thing- border walls, Ukraine Military Aid… the president is supposed to do that thing.
Which, you’ll note, Trump was the one who (tried) to ignore that. You’ll also note that Putin invaded almost immediately after Biden stepped into the office. (Because delaying at that point meant letting Ukraine become increasingly resilient.)
If it wasn’t obvious, trump is a traitor.
Ah, so Trump has twisted it to make it look like Biden is building the wall
I bet he'll later say it was actually him
it was actually trump.
It's also deeply unpopular, as it's being demonstrated to be largely useless… and the amount of graft with the contracts to build it being positively insane.
Hey buddy, are you ok?
You’ll also. It’d that Putin invaded
hey buddy, check the update that happened…before you ever commented.
also… would now be a good time to drop this:
That is a hilarious Venn diagram, thank you. :)
Congress controls the budget and whoever is president signs it into law. I would still think there is something Biden could do but it might take cooperation of Congress
he can (and has,) ask congress to reconsider, but the funding was already approved in a bill signed by trump. congress has refused to reconsider it, leading to work needing to start going on.
because then less funds will be allocated on the next funding cycle - and if there are insufficient funds then projects dont get completed.
In other words, emphasizing to Trump's followers that Biden is the moderate who will build some walls where appropriate.
Or… the money was already allocated by congress and Biden didn’t really have a say in it
