Sen. Lindsey Graham, who seems to be lost after the passing of John McCain, has defended the president’s plan to take money from various projects and spending it on the border wall, and he has even gone so far as defending taking money away from building a middle school in Kentucky to be used for that.
$3.6 billion could come from military construction efforts, including, housing for military families, improvements for bases and construction of a middle school in Kentucky, and Graham believes.
“It’s better for the middle school kids in Kentucky to have a secure border. Right now we’ve got a national emergency.”
And so the kids would have to wait and get their school later.
The emergency ignores the fact that the Department of Homeland Security has revealed that illegal border crossings are way down from what they were 19 years ago, and that nearly 90 percent of illegal drugs cross the border at ports of entry.
It also seems to lose its strength when the president, while announcing the emergency, claimed that he really “didn’t need to do this” now, but he wanted to build the wall “faster”, thenn went to Florida for three days of golf.
18.5% of Kentucky residents live below the poverty line, one of the highest poverty rates among states. It exceeds the 14.0% U.S. poverty rate. Kentucky is one of the states where the gap between poorer fourth and eighth graders and those in financially secure families is growing.
I guess since they’re not at the bottom, their educaton can wait until the vanity wall s complete.
Maybe Mexico will pay for that school.