BORDER/BUDGET/IMMIGRATION/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT/WALL: “President Donald Trump’s 2018 budget calls for more spending for border security and immigration enforcement — but the ask is still modest compared to what fulfilling his campaign pledges would likely cost.
The budget proposed by the White House on Tuesday includes $2.6 billion for border security — $1.6 billion of which will be for ‘bricks and mortar for a wall,’ Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney told reporters on Monday.
A source familiar with the budget justification says the money would largely cover just a few dozen miles of wall, tracking what the administration had previously proposed for the $1 billion it asked for unsuccessfully for 2017 construction.
As CNN previously reported, that $1 billion was requested for just 62 miles of border barrier, 14 of which was replacement fencing.”
-Tal Kopan, “Trump seeks $1.6 billion for border wall ‘bricks and mortar’,” CNN Politics, CNN.com, May 23, 2017 06:00am