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Judi Lynn

(160,219 posts)
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:32 PM May 2020

Largest yet: $1.3 billion contract for border wall awarded to Trump-preferred firm

Source: Associated Press


Associated Press
ASSOCIATED PRESS | Wednesday, May 20, 2020 5:38 p.m.

40 minutes ago

PHOENIX — A North Dakota construction company favored by President Donald Trump has received the largest contract to date to build a section of Trump’s signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Republican U.S. Sen. Kevin Cramer of North Dakota confirmed the $1.3 billion contract for building the 42-mile section of wall through “really tough terrain in the mountains” in Arizona. That’s about $30 million per mile.

Cramer said Fisher Sand and Gravel Co. offered the lowest price for the project. He did not know how many companies bid.

Trump has promised to build 450 miles of wall along the border with Mexico by the end of the year. So far, the government has awarded millions of dollars in contracts for construction of 30-foot-tall barriers, along with new lighting, technology and infrastructure. The Trump administration says it has already built 187 miles of wall. Some of it is new, but most is replacing old, much shorter barriers that officials say were not sufficient.

Read more: https://triblive.com/news/politics-election/largest-yet-1-3-billion-contract-for-border-wall-awarded-to-trump-preferred-firm/

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Largest yet: $1.3 billion contract for border wall awarded to Trump-preferred firm (Original Post) Judi Lynn May 2020 OP
Trump Prefers it? Joe Mauriceovich May 2020 #1
Where notdarkyet May 2020 #2
I'm looking forward to seeing Trump's rage tweets when Joe has the cutting torches Submariner May 2020 #3
I will be extremely disappointed if Joe Biden does not Mr.Bill May 2020 #4
Read my post #6. CaptYossarian May 2020 #8
Paraphrasing, I think, John Maynard Keynes StClone May 2020 #10
Im wonder if it's legally possible Mr.Bill May 2020 #11
Why not! tRump does anything he wants for the bad. StClone May 2020 #14
I don't know the costs of constructing a wall, but isn't 1.3 BILLION a lot for a 42-mile section? secondwind May 2020 #5
Probably not. maxsolomon May 2020 #7
Surely seems that way to me. Judi Lynn May 2020 #18
We're again printing worthless money that won't help Americans. CaptYossarian May 2020 #6
Lucky them! keithbvadu2 May 2020 #9
Fisher Sand and Gravel has never built such a wall. Lonestarblue May 2020 #12
Every single JSC General, Admiral and military lawyer who acquiesced needs to be fired! machoneman May 2020 #13
Can journalists please ask when we can expect Mexico to pay for it? flibbitygiblets May 2020 #15
Completely unconscionable for this damn thing to still be going up Bayard May 2020 #16
Meanwhile, dams fail across the country Yeehah May 2020 #17
Oh, I think next week is infrastructure week. SergeStorms May 2020 #19
 

Joe Mauriceovich

(52 posts)
1. Trump Prefers it?
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:38 PM
May 2020

Well then. I am absolutely certain the project will be quickly completed with maximum efficiency!

notdarkyet

(2,226 posts)
2. Where
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:40 PM
May 2020

Did he get the money? Was it part of Cares, which was not supposed to go for that. Ari next story on the wall 1.3 B to a supporter

Submariner

(12,485 posts)
3. I'm looking forward to seeing Trump's rage tweets when Joe has the cutting torches
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:46 PM
May 2020

take down the new wall sections that are violating environmental protection laws.

Mr.Bill

(24,104 posts)
4. I will be extremely disappointed if Joe Biden does not
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:46 PM
May 2020

tear down every inch of wall that Trump had built.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
8. Read my post #6.
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:51 PM
May 2020

We can still make lemonade out of a white elephant. (That sounds disgusting, but you'll see.)

StClone

(11,679 posts)
10. Paraphrasing, I think, John Maynard Keynes
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:01 PM
May 2020

Pay one guy to dig a hole and another to fill it for economic stimulation during a Depression. Fitting use for the wall if Biden has it torn down. God it will feel great if we get control and undo so much of this crap-a feeling of sanity and control back in our lives.

Mr.Bill

(24,104 posts)
11. Im wonder if it's legally possible
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:04 PM
May 2020

for Biden to sign one executive order that would rescind every one of them that Trump signed. That would be the best inauguration day ever.

StClone

(11,679 posts)
14. Why not! tRump does anything he wants for the bad.
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:40 PM
May 2020

Joe can go crazy and rescind tRump's stinking hulk of a legacy for the good.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
6. We're again printing worthless money that won't help Americans.
Wed May 20, 2020, 06:49 PM
May 2020

Do we have enough gold in Fort Knox to support his 4-year whim? (Or is it the whim of a 4-year old?)

If he had been a fiscal conservative and a Christian, he'd cut Defense by 25% just for CV relief and put the damn wall on hold.

Now he has to rush the wall because he knows he won't win in November.

Maybe President Biden can work with President Carter and incorporate the existing wall sections into Habitat structures.

Lonestarblue

(9,883 posts)
12. Fisher Sand and Gravel has never built such a wall.
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:08 PM
May 2020

The head of the company, Fisher, went on Fox News fairly often and praised Trump and pitched his company to build the wall. Trump insisted that the contract be given to them in violation of government contracting rules. I think this is the wall that can be cut through in a matter of minutes with a $100 saw that anyone can get at a Home Depot. Trump also insisted that the wall be painted black, adding at least $500 million to $1 billion to the cost and creating an ongoing maintenance nightmare to keep it painted. In the blazing Texas sun, paint deteriorates fairly quickly.

machoneman

(3,955 posts)
13. Every single JSC General, Admiral and military lawyer who acquiesced needs to be fired!
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:09 PM
May 2020

They allowed explicitly designated funds to be diverted to the wall. Fire their sorry asses Mr. President Biden! Every single man-jack!

flibbitygiblets

(7,220 posts)
15. Can journalists please ask when we can expect Mexico to pay for it?
Wed May 20, 2020, 07:49 PM
May 2020

Because "promises made, promises kept" and all that horseshit?

Bayard

(21,812 posts)
16. Completely unconscionable for this damn thing to still be going up
Wed May 20, 2020, 10:52 PM
May 2020

We have a fifth of the country not knowing if they'll be able to pay their rent/mortgage next month, people who don't know how they're going to get groceries. The country sinking into despair.

I don't imagine Biden will let this monstrous monument to trump's ego stand. I would certainly like to know if there's a chance of re-purposing these materials into something useful.

SergeStorms

(18,907 posts)
19. Oh, I think next week is infrastructure week.
Thu May 21, 2020, 01:33 AM
May 2020

That's a running joke around here (they never seem to get to "infrastructure week&quot , and apparently in the Trump administration as well. He's been far too busy tweeting and devising ways to ignore the Corona Virus.

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