According to Axios, Kamala Harris said she would spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall at the U.S. southern border.
The outlet said Harris ‘flip-flopped’ on building the wall.
“In her speech to the Democratic National Convention last week, Harris said she would sign the recent bipartisan border security bill — which Trump had ordered his allies to kill, fearing it would help Democrats in the November elections,” Axios reports.
“If she's elected president, Kamala Harris pledges to spend hundreds of millions of dollars on the wall along the southern border — a project she once opposed and called ‘un-American’ during the Trump administration.” https://t.co/NkqFsItoTu
— Frank Luntz (@FrankLuntz) August 27, 2024
Collin Rugg provided the receipts to Harris’ prior comments about the border wall:
Kamala Harris on the border wall over the years:
2017: "Asking taxpayers to pay for a border wall is a terrible idea."
2018: "Funding Trump’s unrealistic border wall would be a gross misuse of taxpayer money."
2019: "Trump's border wall is stupid."
2020: "As I said, Trump's… pic.twitter.com/RxWrRZ1MRh
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) August 27, 2024
Per Axios:
That bill, negotiated by senators such as James Lankford (R-Okla.) and Chris Murphy (D-Conn.), requires hundreds of millions of dollars of unspent funds to be used to continue building a wall on the border.
“It requires the Trump border wall,” Lankford told Axios. “It is in the bill itself that it sets the standards that were set during the Trump administration: Here’s where it will be built. Here’s how it has to be built, the height, the type, everything during the Trump construction.”
Harris’ campaign says the border deal is a whole lot more than continuation of wall funding — and a tiny fraction of what Trump has proposed.
Lankford’s office estimated the legislation would spend $650 million on a wall, down from the $18 billion Trump requested in 2018.
BREAKING: Kamala adopts another Trump policy, pledges hundreds of millions to build the wallhttps://t.co/slubqc5QTY
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 27, 2024
The Trump campaign released a statement saying Kamala Harris supporting the border wall is a “preposterous and false claim.”
“How much longer will the mainstream media allow Kamala Harris to hide and use staff to speak on her behalf? It’s DAY 37 of ZERO interviews and Kamala’s anonymous campaign sources are now claiming she supports President Trump’s border wall — this is a preposterous and false claim,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said.
“Kamala’s RECORD proves she is pro-open border. She called the wall ‘un-American,’ a ‘waste of taxpayer money,’ ‘medieval,’ and said it isn’t going to ‘stop’ illegal immigration. As a senator, Kamala tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall. As Border Czar, Kamala Harris halted construction of the border wall. Kamala’s ACTIONS speak much louder than the WORDS of the anonymous staff she is cowering behind,” she added.
WATCH:
FLASHBACK: Kamala on the border agents whipping hoax: “What I saw … is horrible”
— The Post Millennial (@TPostMillennial) August 27, 2024
From The Post Millennial:
She once called the wall “un-American” while Trump was building it, noted and characterized the decision as the latest example of Harris flip-flopping on her past liberal positions such as supporting Medicare for All and banning fracking — proposals that aides say she now is against.
The VP has also called Trump’s border a “medieval vanity project” in 2019. Although she claims to have moved to the center on immigration by reportedly embracing the wall, she is still opposed to family separation and the mass deportations the Trump has committed his potential presidency to. Harris also pushed the hoax that border agents were whipping immigrants.