{"id":81671,"date":"2018-09-08T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T11:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=81671"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:38","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:38","slug":"military-to-build-that-wall-if-congress-does-not-fund-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81671","title":{"rendered":"Military to &#8220;Build that Wall&#8221; if Congress does not fund it."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-build-that-wall-701x393.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-81672\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-build-that-wall-701x393-500x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-build-that-wall-701x393-500x280.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-build-that-wall-701x393-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/trump-build-that-wall-701x393.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0said Friday that he&#8217;s considering using military resources to finish construction of his long-promised border wall instead of relying on Congress to fund the project through the Homeland Security Department&#8217;s budget.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He also wouldn&#8217;t eliminate the possibility of a government shutdown if Democrats continue to confound his efforts to appropriate money for the project on the U.S.-Mexico\u00a0border.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">&#8216;We have two options,&#8217; he told DailyMail.com aboard Air Force One as he flew from Billings, Montana to Fargo, North Dakota. &#8216;We have military, we have homeland security.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">He was asked specifically about using the Army Corps of Engineers as a taxpayer-funded construction crew.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The man has been fairly consistent\u00a0about building this wall.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I will build a great wall &#8212; and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me &#8211;and I&#8217;ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.&#8221;\u00a0 &#8211;\u00a0 President Trump<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You know, I think the guy just might be serious.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6144837\/Trump-says-use-MILITARY-build-wall-Congress-wont-fund-DHS.html\">Scuttlebutt is HERE.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President\u00a0Donald Trump\u00a0said Friday that he&#8217;s considering using military resources to finish construction of his long-promised border &hellip; <a title=\"Military to &#8220;Build that Wall&#8221; if Congress does not fund it.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=81671\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Military to &#8220;Build that Wall&#8221; if Congress does not fund it.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":667,"featured_media":81672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89,238,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-congress-sucks","category-government-incompetence","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81671","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/667"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=81671"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81671\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/81672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}