I see so no one has an answer as to why Trump didn’t start to build his wall while he had full control of House and Senate? Oh well, so much for a civil discourse
Yawn....
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news...wall-what-status-its-construction/1145825001/
The Pentagon announced $1.5B for border barriers Friday. What's the status of the wall?
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's signature campaign promise was the construction of a wall on the southern border, a promise that has animated some of the largest political fights of his presidency. In December 2018, the federal government partially shut down for 35 days after Trump refused to sign a government funding bill that did not contain sufficient funding for a border wall. In the third year of the Trump presidency, is a wall being built?
As of 2017, about one-third of the U.S.-Mexico border, or 654 miles, was already fenced, but Trump calls a wall a necessary component of border security improvements.
The appropriations bill that Congress passed in February to reopen the government allocated $1.375 billion for 55 miles of border barriers — hardly the wall along the entire border that Trump wants. By law, the administration could only use previously approved designs, which ruled out a concrete wall.
The limited funding appropriated by Congress hasn't stopped the administration from trying to shift pools of money around departments to pay for more border barrier or wall construction, though.
On Wednesday, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told the Senate Defense Appropriations subcommittee that the Pentagon had amassed the funding necessary to build 256 miles of border barriers.
"How you will see this materialize in the next six months is that about 63 additional new miles of wall will come online. So about half a mile a day will be produced," said Shanahan.
As of the time of publication, the Pentagon had not responded to requests for comment about the locations of those sections of border wall.