Originally posted by Accasbel:
No, it did not provide funding. Go read the bill as signed by the President HERE .
How does a $20-billion-something dollar agency pull out a $1-billion-something (probably 3 or 4 of the total budget) from other allocations to build a fence?Again, you are only partially correct.
The 2006 Secure Fence Act did not provide specific funding for the border fence within that particular bill. The reason for that is because a few weeks before that bill was signed, $1.2 billion of funding for the fence was included in a $33.8 billion funding package for Homeland Security... "H.R.5814 Department of Homeland Security Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007"
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.5814:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131303/ You are just making a play on words. By putting the decision to build the fence in the hands of people who have opposed the fence all along IS gutting the orgiginal fence act.
Michael Chertoff always opposed the fence. The landowners always opposed the fence. Kay Bailey Bitchenson always opposed the fence. Democrats always opposed the fence.
You can spin it all you want, but the 2006 fence act is effectively gutted.
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