President Trump Floats Another Way To ‘Build The Wall’

You know what really sucks? We’re still waiting on building the wall. I don’t think that was cheap political rhetoric on Trump’s end. I think he TRULY wants the wall, and he’s frustrated by Congress continually kicking the can down the road. Word has it he’s looking for ways to bypass them.

“We have two options,” Trump recently told DailyMail.com. “We have military, we have homeland security.”

He was asked specifically about using the Army Corps of Engineers as a taxpayer-funded construction crew.

Trump said he would prefer to fund the ambitious construction ‘the old-fashioned way – get it from Congress – but I have other options if I have to.’

“Politically speaking, I’d rather get it through Congress,” he said. “If we don’t, I’m looking at that option very seriously.”

This is a significant admission, as he’s never really said it out loud before.

The possibility of diverting Pentagon funding and assets to build a border wall is a hole card the president is holding but has never directly acknowledged before.

Two Defense Department officials told DailyMail.com in August that the Army Corps of Engineers could take on the task.

‘They build levees that hold back massive walls of water,’ one said of the agency. ‘They can build one to hold back drugs and human traffickers.’

At this point, all eyes are on Congress. If Trump opts out of signing the next federal budget– which is due Sept. 30th– we could have another government shutdown on our hands. I’m not so sure if members of Congress would be as willing to trigger a shutdown, given the fact that midterm elections are right around the corner. Trump would also have to consider if that would be beneficial. Would it help? Hurt? Or who cares, because we need a freaking wall?

‘If it were up – I don’t want to say “up to me,” because it is up to me – I would do it,’ he said aboard Air Force One, ‘because I think it’s a great political issue.’

But he said some Republicans in Congress, facing tough re-election fights, have counseled more patience.

‘They have races, they’re doing well, they’re up,’ Trump explained. ‘And you know, the way they look at it: might be good, might be bad.’

Will there be a showdown? Guess we’ll have to wait this out and see how it unfolds at the end of the month.

h/t Daily Mail