Hometown paper hammers GOP senator for backing Trump's '$80 million punch to the gut'

[turbinetree]

By
Oliver Willis -September 5, 2019

North Carolina lost funding for multiple military projects so Trump can use the money for his wall.

Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) was criticized on Thursday by his hometown newspaper, the Charlotte Observer, for allowing Trump to steal money from some of the state's vital institutions for his border wall.

The paper described the move as an "$80 million punch to the gut" and took the senator to task for repeatedly believing Trump's assurances, describing them as a "lesson that Thom Tillis never seems to learn."

Mexico refused to pay for the wall like Trump promised, and Democrats blocked Trump from spending billions of tax dollars on it. So he is now taking cash from previously authorized military spending.

"North Carolina's military bases will lose about $80 million in planned military construction," the Charlotte News Observer reported on Wednesday.

https://shareblue.com/paper-gop-senator-thom-tillis-north-carolina-military-projects-80-million-gut-punch/

So far McSally(AZ/30 million)) and Tillis(NC / 80 million) have lost in there respective states over 110 million in funds...........................

November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough..............................

[panader0]

1. That 30 million that McSalley lost was to be spent here in my town on Ft Huachuca.

Many construction workers will be out of work.

[turbinetree]

2. The US Supreme Court allowed this stuff.......................

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/supreme-court-lets-trump-use-disputed-military-funds-for-border-wall.html


November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough.................

[yortsed snacilbuper]

4. "November 3, 2020 cannot get here fast enough................."

ditto

[turbinetree]

3. Check out the list.........................

Pentagon details which projects it will delay to pay for Trump’s border barriers

https://www.washingtonpost.com/context/pentagon-details-which-projects-it-will-delay-to-pay-for-trump-s-border-barriers/ab9bde2f-766e-4bdd-8b13-dbed0fefe250/

[gratuitous]

5. Mother of mercy, are Republicans being held responsible at long last?

It's not a whole lot of demand for accountability from Republicans, but it's certainly more than there has been in the media. Maybe some Senate Republicans will start singing a different tune if they start feeling the pinch?

[MFGsunny]

6. K & R ... + 1,000,000 for exposure ... K and R and K and R .... rinse repeat

Expose and unwrap each and everyone of these cowards .... make it stick to them
like so much unyielding saran-wrap-like covering !!!!