Trump says Mexico is 'not going to write a check' for the wall

[DonViejo]

Source: CNBC



PUBLISHED 21 MIN AGO

Kevin Breuninger
@KEVINWILLIAMB

KEY POINTS

President Donald Trump says Mexico will pay for his proposed border wall through the revenue bump Trump hopes will come from a new trade deal pending in Congress.

“During the campaign, I said Mexico would pay for it,” Trump tells reporters outside the White House. “They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made, the USMCA.”

President Donald Trump on Thursday admitted that Mexico would not directly pay for the construction of his proposed wall along the southern border. Instead, he claims the wall will be paid for by revenue gained from a new trade deal pending in Congress.

“During the campaign, I said Mexico would pay for it,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “They are paying for it with the incredible deal we made, the USMCA.”

That deal, short for the U.S. Mexico Canada Agreement, was approved by those three nations following lengthy negotiations over a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has long slammed as the “single worst deal ever approved.”

The Trump administration has provided few details about how the USMCA would lead Mexico to pay for the wall, or if the increased revenue from the Nafta replacement would actually reimburse the U.S. taxpayers who would directly fund the wall’s construction.


Read more: https://www.cnbc.com/2019/01/10/trump-says-mexico-is-not-going-to-write-a-check-for-the-wall-contradicting-campaign-pledge.html

[In_The_Wind]

1. Are we supposed to be surprised?

[Turbineguy]

2. The height of the wall

will depend on bigly he wants the letters of his name.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

3. Believe that, Elephants fly.....

All Trump does is LIE.

When is enough is enough?

[Sneederbunk]

4. Not one red peso senor.

[Corgigal]

5. Those MAGA people

might buy what you're selling, and you're losing them daily, but the real world doesn't.

Better lie please.

[GusBob]

6. Why then are you asking congress for the money? Why then is the government shutdown?

there is no national emergency then is there?

[Izzy Blue]

7. There is no trade deal

And even if Congress approves a deal it keeps getting pointed out in the media that any revenue from it can not be used for his wall because the money belongs to the taxpayers.


"President Donald Trump says Mexico will pay for his proposed border wall through the revenue bump Trump hopes will come from a new trade deal pending in Congress"

[Achilleaze]

8. "I was lying. As usual." - Dirty Donny* (R)

* republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief

[Bernardo de La Paz]

9. NAFTA 2 is small fix to NAFTA. Will not make US Treasury richer. Mexico not paying for any wall. .nt

[NCjack]

10. For years, we got shorted by Mexico with unfair NAFTA tariffs. Now that

The MFer has corrected that imbalance, the increase in money flow to us is rightfully OUR MONEY -- not Mexico's money. He proposes to pay for the wall with OUR adjusted tariff money. That breaks his promise that "Mexico pays for the Wall".

So, who pays for The MFer's Wall? Answer: The US taxpayers.

[Bengus81]

11. I stopped getting two breakfast burrito's at McDonalds so they are paying for my house.........

About the same BS nonsense he's using.

[Cold War Spook]

12. The only way the government would get any of the money is

if the trade agreement actually gives businesses and people some type of profits, but even then the government would only get the taxes that corporations and people would pay on that extra money. And how would we or the government know how much of that money is because of the trade agreement. I am going to stop there. My head is ready to explode.

[Initech]

13. It is way past time to invoke the 25th.

Trump is fucking off his rocker and being fed bad info by a fake news agency. He's losing it big time and he has got to go.

[Arazi]

14. It was literally written in his campaign literature that MX would cut a check

Link to tweet

?s=20

[Roy Rolling]

15. I've Seen This Plan Before

[mwooldri]

16. If the wall will cost 100 billion pesos then we need a down payment.

A lot of contractors ask for 1/2 down. So I wanna see Mexico give Donald Trump a check for 50 billion pesos before I'm ok with saying that we should build a concrete wall on the southern border.

[keithbvadu2]

17. It would probably be a bank transfer of some kind.