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Press Releases Donald Trump Economy Tuesday, Jul 16 2024

America Wasn’t Safer Under Trump

Jul 16, 2024

After jamming with a pair of racist and antisemitic DJs at the official Republican National Convention after party last night, participants are heading to night two of the GOP’s transparent attempt at rewriting the Trump administration’s abysmal failures during his first term in office.

Despite his racist and xenophobic bluster about the southern border and undocumented immigrants, Trump didn’t make America any safer during his four years in office.

Trump spent years on the campaign trail promising, if elected, he’d build a wall at the southern border and make Mexico pay for its construction. Trump didn’t make Mexico pay for the wall and Mexico didn’t send 28,000 people to the border in exchange as Trump claims either. After a lengthy government shutdown triggered by his temper tantrum to force Congress to allocate over $5 billion to fund his pet project, Trump ultimately took almost $7 billion from military spending and the Treasury Department to build his wall. 

By February of 2020, Trump had diverted a total of $3.8 billion from the Department of Defense to build his border wall. According to a Customs and Border Protection report less than 100 miles of newly constructed wall was built as of December 2021. 

Trump touts his unnecessarily cruel and inhumane approach to the border as keeping America safe, but on Main Street, regular Americans battled violence, disease, and the proliferation of guns in their neighborhoods.

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Published: Jul 16, 2024 | Last Modified: Jul 17, 2024

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