Good to hear. I’m still wondering why it is taking so long when President Trump promised to start construction on it back in 2016, though. It’s not like the Demonrats had control of either house of Congress until 2018.
“I’m still wondering why it is taking so long when President Trump promised to start construction on it back in 2016”
Congress wanted a thorough analysis done before funding it. All the accountants and analysts at the the CBO and OMB had to signoff on it, and they wanted to incorporate the lessons learned from the prototyping competition into the design as well, before sinking the money.
The Comprehensive Plan for Full Operational Control of the Southern Border (which the President mandated his first week in office, through Executive Order 13767) was not finally accepted by Congress until December 2018.
When the new Democrat Congress refused full funding several weeks later, in February 2019, President Trump immediately implemented his well prepared backup funding plan (before the Dems budget even made it to his desk). He declared an Emergency, and began full scale deployment with diverted Military funds. The planned (aggressive) Program schedule did not miss a beat, with the big money bomb for full scale deployment arriving on time, despite the worst obstacles that the Democrats and the Left could muster.
I can’t think of anyone else who would have been able to overcome those obstacles.
Compared to Government Programs generally, and Government Construction Programs in particular (which generally take even longer), the Trump Border Wall Program has been amazingly quick. These things are just hard and time consuming - but now this revolutionary new Border Wall System is going up more than ten miles per week, and the new Technology Programs are rolling out even quicker, while DHS continues to staff up.
RINO’s were in control of both house from 2016 to 2018. Trump got blocked on everything he wanted to do until he just did it. He had to overcome Democrats, RINOs, DOJ, CIA, FBI, and almost all media outlets.
I know it’s been a long time ago but. . . you should remember
RINO’s were in control of both house from 2016 to 2018. Trump got blocked on everything he wanted to do until he just did it. He had to overcome Democrats, RINOs, DOJ, CIA, FBI, and almost all media outlets.
I know it’s been a long time ago but. . . you should remember
and the eventual impeachment