President Donald Trump has realized he can’t hold out on his campaign promise that Mexico will pay for a border wall and is now insisting that the Southern neighbor will pay for the wall “indirectly” through a new trade deal. Democrats and financial experts aren’t buying his claim.
Mexico is paying (indirectly) for the Wall through the new USMCA, the replacement for NAFTA! Far more money coming to the U.S. Because of the tremendous dangers at the Border, including large scale criminal and drug inflow, the United States Military will build the Wall!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 19, 2018
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer took the Senate floor Wednesday to dispute the president’s tweet.
“This is the huge turnaround for the president that once insisted that ‘mark my words, Mexico will pay for the wall 100 percent,’” he said, adding that fact-checkers have already disproved the president’s claim.
“There’s nothing in the new agreement that stimulates Mexico must devote any resources to the United States. And any ‘savings’ from a trade deal, if there are any savings, don’t go to the Treasury, they go to American businesses and American taxpayers. Ultimately, the president would have to tax the American people to fund his wall. Mexico ain’t footing the bill.”– READ MORE