DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Vice President Kamala Harris has reversed her position on spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build a wall along the southern border, Axios reported Tuesday.
Harris is now in favor of building a wall after being attacked repeatedly by former President Donald Trump for presiding over an unprecedented surge in illegal immigration to the U.S. as the Biden-Harris administration’s unofficial “border czar,” according to Axios.
Prior to her second run for the presidency (she bowed out in 2020 before the Iowa caucuses), Harris had called the border wall “un-American,” a “stupid waste of money” and Trump’s “medieval vanity project.”
Harris now says she backs the bipartisan border bill proposed in February, which would require hundreds of millions of unspent public dollars to be spent on further construction of a border wall, according to Axios.
The office of Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., one of the lawmakers who negotiated the bill, projected that the legislation would spend $650 million on wall construction, a far cry from the $18 billion that Trump wanted for the border wall in 2018.
Her flip-flop on the border is the latest instance of Harris and her team distancing the vice president from left-wing positions she previously endorsed, such as banning fracking and supporting a Medicare-for-All health care system.
The Harris campaign has made an effort to present Harris as tough on crime and somewhat hawkish on the border in recent weeks, with one advertisement released earlier in August depicting images of Trump’s border wall while a narrator speaks about her record as a “border-state prosecutor.”
The Harris campaign has noted that the failed border bill—which would have permitted an average of 5,000 migrants per day to cross the border—does not include any new money for building a wall and contains other provisions, such as additional money to pay for asylum attorneys and judges, according to Axios.
“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,” Karoline Leavitt, national press secretary for the Trump campaign, said in a written statement shared with the Daily Caller News Foundation.
“As a senator, Kamala tried to block President Trump’s construction of the border wall,” Leavitt said. “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.”
The Biden-Harris administration has overseen a crisis at the border that started after the administration walked back several key policies that the Trump administration had instituted.
Since 2021, there have been at least 6.7 million encounters with illegal migrants at the southern border and 8 million such encounters nationwide, according to the House Oversight and Accountability Committee and the House Homeland Security Committee.
The Harris campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Nick Pope is a contributor to the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Reprinted with Permission from The Daily Caller – By Nick Pope
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Don’t worry. Nothing has changed in terms of what the Democrat Party and its candidates support. Everything Kamala and the rest of the Marxists say is just lies to get the ignorant or uniformed to vote for them. Should the Democrats still occupy the Oval Office after January 30th of 2025, everything the party stood for under the Biden presidency will be the same under Kamala or any other Democrat.
More Harris lies to get the independents who don’t like Trump (but support his policies) to vote for her. By the time November rolls around, her campaign promises (lies) will be exactly the same as Trump’s. The difference? Chameleon Commie-la will forget all her “promises” and turn the country into a banana republic, while Trump will keep his promises.
She just lies and thinks people are too stupid to read between the lines. Harris and Biden have done nothing to improve our country. All they have done is to destroy everything and take America down. What makes the Democrats think we believe them when they steal Trumps policies???
As usual, DON’T TRUST ANY RHETORIC FROM THE VP CANDIDATE!!! Remember Pres. Biden’s promises that fell flat when he DID ABSOLUTLY NOTHING TO IMPLEMENT THEM. Any rhetoric from her will simply fly into space especially if she happens to be elected. DANGER, DANGER, UNITED STATES!!!
Harris is the ultimate hypocrite. What she says now, she’s saying only to take votes from Trump because she recognizes that Trump’s policies worked for America. Do I think she’ll follow through on any of her about-face policy decisions? Heck no! We have yet to see in writing her policy objectives and how she will achieve them.
She’s plagiarizing Trump, calling for “no tax on tips” and “securing the border”, although she and biden had almost 4 years to do this. Nothing has changed except the lying words coming out of her mouth. Without taking any questions from legitimate reporters, harris isn’t committed to anything, so she can’t be held accountable. She and her VP candidate are socialists through and through. Don’t fall for anything she says.
Yes, Harris changes colors like a chameleon. Her “Democrat” mentors who actually want to kill Democracy have schooled her well.
She is a copy cat.
Telling a lie comes so easy to her,and to all of those who are like her. Birds of a feather flock together., or something like that.
She epitomizes the word “Phony”. What amazes me is the insult to our intelligence that she thinks we put any credence to what she says or does, or perhaps, her handler’s cynicism prevails.
Flip-flop is her game. If she’s elected, she’ll flip-flop again.
well yea she will support it until elected. then wide open again sorta like legs
We should remember that most, if not all, radicals campaign as moderates to appeal to more voters and govern as brainless lunatic leftists desperately trying to spend money. The money in question is OUR TAXES. We also should remember most never had a job in the private sector in any capacity so they have no idea about operating a private sector company or how to keep a job in such a place.
DC is doing a pretty good job of sacking the country .They really don’t need Vandals to help How do they imagine to take care of them I can’t imagine We are headed for an iceberg and it would take a miracle or awakening of a vote to make a U turn and right this ship The manure Kamala is spreading is the same anyone in her stead would spread, some can’t get enough of it.
“NO, she does not and if you believe her clap trap, wait .. . . . . and the truth of her lying dog soul will emerge.” Seems two of hundreds find her hollow, lying, and not a shred of values.
Don’t be surprised if (God Forbid!), under democratic one party rule in DC, the democrats cram everything they say they are currently against down our throats.
She will say ANYTHING to try to get elected. It won’t work. Ppl are waking up to the lies and power grabs.
Can the foolish people on the left not see her for what she is, a pathetic, clueless pandering politician on her drama stage of celebrity? Shameful how her supporters are in awe of her, when she’s failed (and miserably at it!)cat the job she’s been in for nearly 4 years, and is seeking a promotion. There really ought to be an intelligence test to vote, even with basic questions about our history and governmental style.
Kamala the Chameleon! She was all about her Indian heritage now she is black. She changes her position to which ever way the political wind blows.
Sure she is, until she gets elected.
Since she’s HIDiN like Biden she hasn’t said anything . The talking heads are taking all Trumps policies & saying that is what they are going to do . Why don’t they do it now ? It’s because they never plan to do anything they say . It’s going to be MARXIST all the way …
So why doesn’t she push for a STAND ALONE border wall funding right now? Guess Democrats don’t want to keep money & power THAT bad!
Kamala Harris is now in favor of “The Wall” for the same reason the East Germans were… to prevent workers from fleeing “The Paradise.”
Kakala has not changed her ideas or goals are still the same. She said that! She lies to get more votes but will still do the same evil things she said previously to accomplish her communist goals. Democraps are all snakes snd cannot be trusted with our lives or future.
Just more smoke and Mirrors!
No one believes her!
Trump/Vance 2024
Make no mistake… harris is not suddenly FOR the border wall… harris is for telling any lie that will get her elected. She will never be for the border wall and if she gets elected she will immediately call for the removal of the existing sections of wall… this will be reminiscent of when biden swore up and down to oil and coal workers that their jobs were safe and then on his first day in office, with the swipe of a pen, put all those poor people (who believed him and voted for him) out of work and on the unemployment lines. Who remember when he said “they can learn to code” (computer programming)?
She is a liar; she is only making this statement to get voted. If she gets into office she will do nothing about the border security
Harris may say she in favor of building the wall, but that is a LIE. She is only saying that to get elected. The democrats are leaving the border open, and giving the illegals the right to vote, so that the democrats can win.
Remember when the Dumbassocrats used to at least hide their lies better? They no longer even TRY!
Kamala is just doing what she and the communist democrats do best. Telling the weak minded what they want to hear, hoping she can squeeze out enough votes to win. Lies and deception, for the agenda. If they could win, then they go back to the flip-flop.
hearing loud and clear . . . “Of course she is lying and will not do as said, another lie.”
This would be a valued survey AMAC?
The bottom line (all her lying aside) is that she is simply too incompetent to ever be a leader, let alone the commander in chief of the United States! She doesn’t have even a modicum of what it takes to do that job! She should realize this and immediately stop trying to pull a fast one on the American people! They deserve much better! Harris, STOP NOW while you still can.
Achmed the Dead Terrorist has a Higher I.Q. than Communist Harris.
It is a case of actions not words. Time will tell how sincere this new stance on the border wall is . Trust needs to be developed over a period of time and through experiences that indicate which direction the actions will. go. Praise for everyone who has proven their trustworthiness on the border and border wall issues. The courage, loyalty ,integrity involved in defending the Nation from invasion should be appreciated especially when it is understood that there are political powers complicating the matter.In the spirit of God bless America , land of the free,home of the brave. Let Truth and Liberty prevail.