How state of emergency will fund wall
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to pay for his long-promised and controversial border wall.
The national emergency and other measures will free up $8 billion – far more than the $5.7 billion he initially demanded – to free up funding for 234 miles of bollard wall, the White House said. It’s a move that is almost guaranteed to draw the White House into a lengthy legal battle over the president’s ability to use the tool for that purpose.
So where will the White House find that money? might be cancelled or delayed by the move.
Trump will dip into about $600 million in asset forfeiture funds at Department of Treasury. This funding has been controversial on both sides of the aisle because it comes from government seizures of property. other measures. The White House believes it can draw about $2.5 billion through this provision.
White House officials did not say where that money will come from.
Congressional funding Part of Trump’s package includes the $1.375 billion that Congress approved on a bipartisan basis for border barriers late Thursday night.
That measure, which will also avert another government shutdown, limits Trump to spending the money only on previously approved barrier designs, including the “bollard wall” design that was also used by the Obama administration.