posted January 09, 2020 02:57 PM            

A federal appeals court released $3.6 billion in border wall funding Wednesday that had been blocked by a lawsuit.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans lifted the curbs while the Department of Justice prepares to appeal a lower judge¡¦s decision to block the spending because of the lawsuit.

Reuters reported:

In a 2-1 ruling, the panel noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had stayed an injunction in a similar border wall case from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

The court also said there was a "substantial likelihood¨ that the parties challenging the funding transfer, the county of El Paso, Texas, and the Border Network for Human Rights, lacked standing to sue the Trump administration.

So far, and amid dogged resistance by Democratic legislators, Trump's deputies have upgraded roughly 100 miles of older wall. The extra money, which was transferred from other spending programs by President Donald Trump's emergency declaration, will allow the agencies to construct another 174 miles of wall, including new wall on stretches of the border which lack any barrier......

posted January 09, 2020 07:00 PM            

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Originally posted by teasel:
What about our veterans, and homeless? The people you guys bring up when it comes to being financially generous with anyone who isn't a citizen.

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As usual, you don't know what you're talking about.

About 60% of the entire US federal budget goes to social welfare and entitlement programs. That's just the federal budget and doesn't include state spending on the same or similar programs.