“he should have used the military to do it on day one.”
Lots of reasons why mid-term is better.
The Military needed its catch up budget after years of Obama and sequestration, that it would not have gotten if the wall was rolled in.
Lots of Wall issues had to be worked, before dropping the big money - what is the best design, what is the best route, what is the priority for construction, how can we get around Leftist lawsuits, how can we best get right of way from all the private landowners, how can we work around binding treaty requirements, etc..
All of that is now solved. Beyond the planning and procedures, Government contracting itself has a significant lead time. The contracts are now standing, with a pool of pre-approved vendors ready to quickly bid out each segment - it is all tested, with three segments completed and fourteen more recently awarded.
This is just the point in the program where the planning and prep are complete, and everything is ready to ramp up - ready for the money bomb.
this is the big story in all FakeNewsMSM. intel agencies under-cutting the President:
30 Jan: Reuters: U.S. spy chiefs break with Trump on many threats to the U.S.
by Patricia Zengerle, Doina Chiacu
China and Russia pose the biggest risks to the United States, and are more aligned than they have been in decades as they target the 2020 presidential election and American institutions to expand their global reach, U.S. intelligence officials told senators on Tuesday.
The spy chiefs broke with President Donald Trump in their assessments of the threats posed by North Korea, Iran and Syria...
While China and Russia strengthen their alliance, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats said, some American allies are pulling away from Washington in reaction to changing U.S. policies on security and trade.
The directors of the CIA, FBI, National Security Agency and other intelligence agencies flanked Coats at the Senate Intelligence Committee hearing. They described an array of economic, military and intelligence threats, from highly organized efforts by China to scattered disruptions by terrorists, hacktivists and transnational criminals...
The intelligence officials said they had protected the 2018 U.S. congressional elections from outside interference, but expected renewed and likely more sophisticated attacks on the 2020 presidential contest...
The intelligence chiefs’ assessments broke with some past assertions by Trump, including on the threat posed by Russia to U.S. elections and democratic institutions, the threat Islamic State poses in Syria, and North Korea’s commitment to denuclearize.
Coats said North Korea is unlikely to give up its nuclear weapons. Trump has said the country no longer poses a threat.
Coats also said Islamic State would continue to pursue attacks from Syria, as well as Iraq, against regional and Western adversaries, including the United States. Trump, who plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Syria, has said the militant group is defeated...
The intelligence officials also said Iran was not developing nuclear weapons in violation of the 2015 nuclear agreement...
Senators expressed deep concern about current threats...
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-security/us-spy-chiefs-break-with-trump-on-many-threats-to-the-us-idUSKCN1PN1U3