The U.S. government easily could have funded the $5.7 billion dollar border wall

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The average amount of money the U.S. government spent between January 26th, 2018, and January 25th, 2019, on a government day basis was $5.8 billion dollars.

A government day counts every day except weekends and holidays. That equals about 251 government days.

That $5.8 billion dollars would have been enough in one government day to fund a $5.7 billion dollar border wall that President Trump was demanding in the nearly five weeks when the U.S. government was shut down.

But does it really matter?

Some people will say that the 251 government days is not a full year.

However, politicians need the other 114 days of the year to plan their budgets anyway.

So it is a full year.

The $5.8 billion dollars (on one government day) that is spent doesn’t even come close to the one percent of what was spent over the past year. That is nothing in the federal budget. In fact $5.8 billion was only .398 percent of what the government has spent within the last year.

The United States government spent 1.456 trillion dollars (not rounded) in one year.

That one year time period was between January 26th, 2018, and January 25th, 2019, the last day of the 34 plus days the government was “partially” shut down.

Because the truth is, the government is never fully shut down. Only partially, when it is.

The U.S. government spent more than $81 billion dollars from December 21st, the last day before the government shutdown, through January 25th, the last day of the government shutdown.

The average amount that the government spent in a rolling five-week time period (the latest government shutdown length) for an entire year from January 25th, 2018, through the same day in 2019 was $125 billion.

That $81 billion dollars was 65 percent of what is normally spent by the government in any five-week period over the past year. And the average spending from December 21st through January 25th of the average percent was 72 percent.

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From December 22nd through January 25th, the National Debt increased by $87 billion dollars.

The average amount spent in a rolling five-week period for an entire year from January 25th, 2018, through January 25th, 2019, (based on the previous sentence) was $119 billion.

That $87 billion dollars was 73 percent of what is normally spent by the government in any five-week period over the past year. And the average spending from December 21st, through January 25th of the average percent was also 72 percent.

The U.S. government spent 1.457 trillion dollars (rounded) within one year. That one year time period was between January 25th, 2018 and January 25th of 2019.

The average amount of money the U.S. government spent from January 25th, 2018, through the same day of the next year was $5.78 billion. That was only .397 percent of what the government has spent within the last year.

Through January 25th, the U.S. National Debt is at twenty-one trillion, 950 billion dollars.