Trump officials to announce completion of 100 miles of border wall

Trump administration officials will announce Friday that they have completed construction on 100 miles of new barriers along the southern border with Mexico.

Acting Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security Chad Wolf will announce the completed construction in Yuma, Ariz., The Washington Post reported. He will be joined by senior border officials and Sen. Martha McSally (R-Ariz.).

The announcement will come just days after a federal appeals court in New Orleans lifted an injunction from a lower court that had blocked the Trump administration from using military funds to help build the border wall.

The Wednesday decision will allow the White House to access $3.6 billion for the wall, a key campaign promise from the president’s 2016 election and a centerpiece of his 2020 campaign.

A district court judge ruled last month that the administration could not spend money allocated by lawmakers for a different purpose. But the appeals court found that the money, approximately one-third of the $11 billion allotted so far for the wall, according to the Post, could be used while legal challenges continue to make their way through federal courts.

Trump celebrated the decision in a tweet, sharing “Breaking News: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals just reversed a lower court decision & gave us the go ahead to build one of the largest sections of the desperately needed Southern Border Wall, Four Billion Dollars. Entire Wall is under construction or getting ready to start!"

“Hasn’t been a great few months for the morons on the left.”
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May their bad luck continue for a minimum of 5 more years!!

Hopefully, even longer!

This $3.6 billion is slated to build 175 high priority miles of Trump-style Super Barrier.

Another $1.4 billion was signed into law just before Christmas, in the 2020 appropriations. I expect that will build through Laredo, Texas, and down to Falcon Lake (60-70 miles).

The appropriations contained no prohibition on the President using the same sources of extra funds that he did in 2019, so a few billion more will likely be dug out of the sofa cushions in the Military budget as well. Last year (2019), they dug out a total of $6.1 billion.

So a minimum of $5 billion will be going on contract this year, and possibly over $10 billion.

We are off to the races.

In the Summer, we should be completing over a mile per day, and accelerating.

The bottom line is that there is probably enough money to contract a roughly complete Border Security System in 2020, even if construction on those contracts continues for a year after. Whatever might be left over to do, will be the lowest priority segments.

We are in the ball park for a functionally complete job, to gain full operational control of the border.

First term.

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