“The wall is dependent on a promise... that Mexico would pay for the wall.”
Building a wall does depend on funding, but it does not have to be Mexican funding. As long as there is money to pay the contractors, we can argue over the bill from behind a big, beautiful wall.
There is talk of a big infrastructure bill being negotiated next month - maybe a trillion dollars, like Obama’s. Ten billion for a wall would be huge, twenty billion would be enough to do pretty much the whole length (except the tough mountain stretches).
All the planning and prototyping and contracting that went on this year got us ready to execute a big load of money.
The wall is really now “shovel-ready” for 2018 contract awards.
Wrong...... minus appropriations there can be no contracts.
The congress so far at least, is holding Trump to his promise and making no additional wall construction appropriations