# Trump's Shutdown **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 11, 2019, 6:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-shutdown/827577 "2019-01-11T06:18:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 404
**Author:** ![Steve\_MB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/steve_mb/32/5339_2.png) [@Steve\_MB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Steve_MB)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2019, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-shutdown/827577/404 "2019-01-25T01:45:06Z")
> [@Buck\_Godot](#): > > I’d vote for something like this. appoint a comission to study the issue, accept bids, draw up plans, work out how to get the land etc. with the plan that construction will start somewhere around January 21 2021 (assuming the sitting president still wants it). He and his base can’t complain, after all as the best most popular president ever they know he’s a shoe-in for a second term. Also, include all kinds of strict requirements for all work to be Made-In-America and American-Owned materials and labor. If [certain nasty suspicions](https://www.sltrib.com/opinion/letters/2019/01/19/letter-who-will-profit/) about the real purpose of the wall project have a basis in fact, that’ll screw Lord Orange over in a way that he will have the devil’s own time wriggling out of or even complaining about. > [@](#): > > Evraz, Russia’s second-largest steel company, owns three American steel companies: one in Pueblo, Colo., one in Portland, Ore., and one in Chicago. Russian Roman Abramovich, who lives in Moscow, owns the controlling shares in these “American” steel companies. > If Evraz gets a contract to supply steel slats for a border wall, a lot of our hard-earned tax dollars will end up in the pockets of Russian oligarch Abramovich and his cronies, including Russian President Vladimir Putin… --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/trumps-shutdown/827577)._