If we sanctioned a country and it suffered an enormous tragedy would we provide aid/help or ignore them? What would YOU do? Why?

After Harvey, Irma, Jose and Katia is paid for  there will be no TRUMPWALL money. The guys who control the purse strings know that. You know that. I know that. If Trump and his worshippers don't know that yet they will. Thank you for your reply and Happy Monday.

I'm not sure.   I think he will keep this crap about the wall up until people start campaigns to raise money for him.

Trump battle for wall money squeezed by deadline for debt limit
By Jennifer Jacobs and Shannon Pettypiece, Bloomberg • August 27, 2017
JOSHUA ROBERTS | REUTERS | BDN
President Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Phoenix, Arizona, Aug. 22, 2017.

President Donald Trump is spoiling for a fight with Congress over funding a border wall with Mexico, but he’ll have a hard time waging that battle because of a looming deadline to avert a U.S. debt default.

Some of the president’s advisers consider a tough stand on border wall funding crucial to Trump’s credibility and even political survival, two White House officials said. Before his departure last week as Trump’s chief strategist, Stephen Bannon urged the president to go through with a government shutdown if necessary to force Congress into providing money for the wall, said the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss strategy.

As allies in corporate America and the Republican establishment pull away from Trump and he declines in national polls, the president is increasingly dependent on a core following for whom his campaign vow of a border wall remains a visceral issue. The wall drama plays out as his decision to pour more troops and resources into Afghanistan risks disappointing supporters drawn by his pledges to cut U.S. military involvement abroad.

Failure to make progress on the border wall — or at least go to the mat on the issue — may fracture what has been a solid political base for the president, added a Republican consultant who closely follows that group of voters. Those loyal supporters haven’t shown signs of wavering amid the political backlash over Trump’s remarks on the violence in Virginia, but they need to see results on his promise of change if they are to stick with him, according to consultant, who also spoke on condition of anonymity.

check out this comment just before Harvey and Irma:

At a rally in Phoenix on Tuesday, Trump drew the line in the sand Bannon had urged.

“If we have to close down our government, we’re building that wall,” Trump pledged. “One way or the other, we’re going to get that wall.”

In public, Trump has stopped repeating his vow to make Mexico pay for the wall — which Republican lawmakers have estimated would require $12 billion to $15 billion — though his aides insist that’s still the president’s intention. The House included $1.6 billion to start construction of a section of wall in a package of spending bills for the next fiscal year that passed in the House in July, but the Senate hasn’t acted on it yet.

Asked Thursday if Trump would sign a spending measure that doesn’t include wall funding, press secretary Sarah Sanders was firm: “He won on talking about building the wall and he’s going to make sure that it gets done.”

Yet Sanders also repeated assurances that Trump is determined to avert a U.S. default, saying of the legal debt limit the U.S. is about to hit that the president is “still committed to making sure it gets raised.”

The dilemma for Trump is that in a crowded legislative calendar Congress needs to pass a spending measure to keep the government open after Sept. 30 at the same time it’s facing a deadline to raise the nation’s debt limit. While Republican leaders have yet to reveal a plan for how they’ll proceed, a likely scenario is to package the two measures together to get them to the president’s desk.
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If the two issues are combined, that would compound the economic consequences of a stand-off. While federal government shutdowns have often provoked anger from voters, the U.S. has experienced a number of them with little long-term damage. But the country hasn’t ever defaulted on its debt, a step that could rattle financial markets and damage the U.S. reputation for creditworthiness

Trump fulminated against Republican congressional leaders over the debt-limit “mess” in a Twitter posting Thursday morning, saying they ignored advice he gave to include the debt-ceiling increase in a popular veterans bill. The tweet spurred a spike in investor concern that Congress and the White House may not act in time.

After his tweets, the rate on Treasury bills maturing Oct. 12 jumped by as much as 5 basis points, the largest intraday move since March.

Rates on those bills — which mature around the time the Treasury would be expected to run out of money unless there’s a debt limit increase — began rising Wednesday, one day after Trump threatened to shut down the government over getting money for the wall.

Back in July, House Speaker Paul Ryan and other GOP leaders did discuss using a veterans bill as a vehicle to raise the debt ceiling. But conservatives in the House are demanding that steep spending cuts accompany any debt bill. Lawmakers are still trying to figure out whether there is a debt bill that can pass with only Republican votes in the House, or whether they will need to move a bill with bipartisan support that doesn’t contain any spending cuts. This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at September 11, 2017 1:29 PM MDT