Trump Officials to Announce: 100 Miles of Border Wall Completed
Catherine Smith
- January 10th, 2020
Trump administration officials plan to announce today that they have completed construction on 100 miles of new barriers along the border with Mexico, but their benchmark underscores how far construction crews still have to go to fulfill the president’s pledge to finish 450 miles by the end of 2020, according to The Hill.
Chad Wolf, the secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is traveling to Yuma, Arizona, to make the announcement, according to DHS officials. Senior border officials and U.S. Sen. Martha McSally, R-Ariz, The Washington Post reported.
The announcement will come just days after a federal appeals court in New Orleans lifted a lower court injunction that had frozen $3.6 billion the White House diverted for the project from military construction funds.
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 in El Paso ruled last month that the administration did not have the authority to spend money allocated by Congress for a different purpose. But the appeals court ruled the administration can use the money – approximately one third of the $11 billion the administration has obtained so far for the “border wall†– while legal challenges to make their way through federal courts.
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