Spread over five years?! That should get immediate veto! This does highlight the problem that they might ultimately give him the money but attach strings to it—how used, no use of DoD, etc.
“Yesterday, I had heard that the approval was for $5 billion, but it was spread over 5 years.”
It is probably given five years to spend. Appropriations are mostly limited in duration - if not spent they expire after some given time. Different types of money expire on different timeframes.
Five year money is pretty common for construction projects.
Before the midterm elections, there were radio ads being played to push support for Kevin Mccarthy, on his ‘build the wall’ bill, paid for by the ‘state tea party’. Except it appears this pac paid for ads all over the country.
Mccarthy’s web site claimed it would ‘fully fund’ the wall by providing $25 billion. But, in the bill, it only allocated $23.4 billion for spending, with only $16.6 billion for wall funding... broken into 5.5 billion for the first year, then the rest over 6 years.
I would not doubt they would do the same thing here.