Trevor Morley's Tache
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The simple answer is that he doesn't want a wall. It was an ill though out campaign strategy that he realised very early after the election was actually a really stupid idea. Unfortunately for the American people, his ego is such that he doesn't want to be the one to give it up. His 35 day shut down stunt f*cked over a lot of vulnerable people, and cost the country a sh*t load of money in the process, for a wall he doesn't want, just to save his ego.
He wants the Democrats to block him, to save face. In fact the last 2 years have been about forcing the Democrats to block his plans at every turn, simultaneously shutting down his stupid idea and making the Dems look bad (to his base at least). If he'd have wanted a wall, he would have gone down the emergency funding route from day one, or signed off on the original spending bill, which offered a damn site more money than he shut the Government down for in December.
The $5B is a nonsense number anyway, as this won't even scratch the surface. I will take multiple contractor (designers/architects/civil engineering/steel manufacturers/transport companies/finance/lawyers/real estate) to realise his (sh*t) idea; and that's before it runs into problems and delays due to engineering issues and legal fights over land ownership. It will be over budget, and it won't be delivered on time. It will just be another one of those Government contracts where the contractor wins at a huge cost to the people, who didn't really want it in the first place.
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