Preparations consist of finding their checkbook and figuring out which account from which to draw the $5.7 billion.
The actual cost will drop like a rock, if you use military personnel. All that overhead will go away. Army officers will ensure the projects stay on schedule. It’ll be done before fall of 2020. In fact, it won’t surprise me if he brings US military units from Germany on temp-duty...to be part of the construction project.
Pentagon petty cash.
Precisely.
Bingo!
They could find that just by auditing any of their “overseas contingency operations.”
Or just intercept a few of the pallets headed for Iran.
Or sell a couple of their screwdrivers/toilets at half price...
There is over $20 BILLION in the DOD budget that is currently simply marked for CONSTRUCTION or some such... They are not tied to any specific project... So, can be utilized without any approvals of congress needed since Congress already authorized the money.
Only path the left will have is to sue claiming that this isn’t a national emergency and as such the President does not have the authority to do it... However, with human trafficking, drugs, gangs, and general violence demonstrably tied to the porous border, and constant attacks on border agents, as well as the video of illegals literally storming the gates etc... that’s a hard argument to make... though I am sure KAGAN, RBG and SOTOMAYOR will vote it isn’t an emergency, because they are not there to protect the constitution, but undermine it...