[Hoot Gibson]

^^ So, your taste for news is of the CNN kind, Hoot? After categorically stating what a miserable failure Trump has been, you source CNN. Thereby defining ONE of the ways in which MR Trump has gone around the antagonist Congress in order to fulfill his campaign promise to build the wall. Good for you. :Thumbs:

So, it is your position that President Trump's own Department of Defense was misquoted, or is the Department of Defense in on the plot against President Trump? Exactly where is the new border wall that President Trump miraculously built with no funding from Congress?

As for your assertion that I have stated that President Trump has been a miserable failure, that is just an outright lie on your part. I have said that Trump's record on stemming the tide of illegal immigration has been a miserable failure, which it clearly has been. Apparently, even Donald Trump believes that there have been serious problems with his administration's efforts in this area, as evidenced by his firing of his Secretary of Homeland Security earlier this week.

If one can believe the U.S. Army, even the contracts that were executed yesterday were for the purpose of replacing sections of existing border wall. Can one believe the U.S. Army, or should the author of the following be fired for plotting against President Trump?

(Note that the estimated completion date for the two contracts signed yesterday falls within two months of the 2020 election.)

Contracts for April 9, 2019
ARMY

SLSCO Ltd., Galveston, Texas, was awarded a $789,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for border replacement wall construction. Nine bids were solicited with six bids received. Work will be performed in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, with an estimated completion date of Oct. 1, 2020. Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $388,999,999 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Albuquerque, New Mexico, is the contracting activity (W912PP-19-C-0018).

Barnard Construction Co. Inc., Bozeman, Montana, was awarded an $187,000,000 firm-fixed-price contract for design-bid-build construction project for primary pedestrian wall replacement. Four bids were solicited with three bids received. Work will be performed in Yuma, Arizona, with an estimated completion date of Sept. 30, 2020. Fiscal 2019 operations and maintenance, Army funds in the amount of $93,499,999 were obligated at the time of the award. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles, California, is the contracting activity (W912PL-19-C-0013).