Now do estimates on how much forgiving all student debt would cost. And then do the cost of supplying free health care to illegal immigrants. Then do the cost of having open borders.
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No one is supporting open borders. Democrats want existing laws to be enforced in a humane way (no imprisonment of children in unacceptable conditions for longer than the law allows which is 72 hours). Many minors have been illegally held for weeks. The cost of these ideas does need to be determined as well as what is a reasonable military budget. The Pentagon was recently audited by an outside firm. The result?
The Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where Its Money Goes
Opinion | The Pentagon Doesn’t Know Where Its Money Goes
After decades of ducking the legal requirement that it undergo a thorough financial audit, the Pentagon finally opened up its books to 1,200 outside accountants and analysts. The
report was recently completed, and here’s the good news: The Army Corps of Engineers (most of it, anyway) and the Military Retirement Fund passed the audit.
The bad news:
The Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines and most other divisions failed, which means they were unable to show that they were properly keeping track of their finances and assets.
“We failed the audit,” Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told reporters with a curiously nonchalant air. “We never expected to pass it.”
Defense Secretary Rumsfeld said in a speech at the Pentagon on the day before 9/11:
“We cannot track
$2.3 trillion in transactions,” then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld said in 2001. The next day, al Qaeda attacked the U.S., and priorities changed.