Last updated on July 17th, 2023 at 09:24 pm
After spending over 15 months promising to build a Mexico-funded wall on the southern border of the United States to stop the “flood” of undocumented workers, Donald Trump basically admitted that the U.S. will be paying to construct the wall in a “major policy address” in Gettysburg on Saturday.
Video:
In Gettysburg, Trump appears to tweak his border wall plan: the U.S. will pay for the wall, then Mexico will reimburse the U.S. for the cost pic.twitter.com/Bw2kqCniIp
— Bradd Jaffy (@BraddJaffy) October 22, 2016
Tweet via Jennifer Jacobs of Bloomberg Politics:
Trump says his “end illegal immigration act” would fully fund a wall “with the full understanding” that Mexico “will be reimbursing” U.S.
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) October 22, 2016
In the speech, Trump told the crowd to not “worry about” the plan’s tweak, but according to a summary of Trump’s speech on his website, his proposed “End Illegal Immigration Act” says the United States would fully fund “the construction of a wall on our southern border with the full understanding that the country Mexico will be reimbursing the United States for the full cost of such wall.”
We all know what this means: the United States will be paying for Trump’s proposed wall, despite his repeated ridiculous claims that Mexico will be funding it.
In other words, the US is going to pay for the wall and not Mexico. https://t.co/1Ke4PTWxfr
— (((Harry Enten))) (@ForecasterEnten) October 22, 2016
Most sensible Americans knew from the beginning that Mexico would not be paying for Donald Trump’s wall. Now it appears that even Trump himself has conceded this fact.
Sad!
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