Donald Trump has decided to “waive” multiple different laws regarding federal contractors in order to get his border wall built faster. This move should immediately raise red flags with the American public, not just because this is likely illegal, but also because this is just his latest attempt to appease his rabid base before the election. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins discusses this. Link –
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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.
To say that Donald Trump has no respect for the rule of law, I think would probably be a gross understatement, right? We all know that Donald Trump has no respect for the rule of law, but each day we're kind of finding out a little more and more about how little regard he has for it. Take for example, this story that came out earlier this week. Apparently Donald Trump has decided that in order to appease his rabid base, he's got to get his border wall built as quickly as possible so that he can have the 450 miles that he's promised constructed before the 2020 election. But in order to do that, he kind of has to screw with the process a little bit. See, there's a reason why federal projects seem to take a little bit longer and it's because there are lots of different laws, actual laws in place, that govern how money is spent by the federal government, especially when it comes to hiring private contractors.
So Donald Trump this week said, you know what? It is within my authority to do this. So I am going to temporarily suspend those laws so that we don't have to abide by them so that I can fast track my border wall. And these are all laws, 10 of them, that apply to the procurement of the project, meaning what materials are used, how those materials are purchased, who they are purchased from, who gets hired to do the job and eliminating competition in the bidding process. Basically doing away with the bidding process. So whoever Donald Trump and the department of homeland security say, yeah, this guy looks good. He gets to go do it. That's it. There's no more bidding. There's no more analysis of which company's legit and which one may rip you off. They're just going to pick somebody willy nilly, most likely a Trump supporter based on the people we've seen building the wall in the past.
And that person then gets to have that job and they get to make millions and billions of dollars possibly. And, you know, we're not going to be looking over their shoulder to make sure they're using the correct materials or that they're even doing the correct job in the first place because Trump just wants it done. Now here's the question I have for Donald Trump supporters out there who are just giddy over the fact that we're going to have this border wall. We saw reports, what a week and a half ago, where part of the wall blew down. Right? Like the big bad Wolf is sitting over there in Mexico just huffing and puffing. But they had a heavy breeze. Part of the wall blew down and it's because they didn't set the concrete properly. And I know they say it's, well, it wasn't dried. Yes, but you do not lay concrete in inclement weather.
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