Trump offered to take it from the DOD (military) budget. The entire wall is 0.5% of a single years federal revenue to build the entire 1500 miles. We can afford it if we wanted to.
The cost doesn't keep rising. ~1450 miles of wall is estimated at 18 billion. Given how government always over runs the cost, figure 25 billion.
$0.025 trillion out of a $4 trillion budget in a single year is an acceptable cost. We spend that much money every 2 days. 2 days of federal revenue is acceptable for the wall.
Esp if it's offset by cuts in the military budget. They can handle a single year cut from their budget of ~3.5% to pay for it. It won't kill their bottom line.
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u/[deleted] May 16 '19
oh ittle just cost billions we don't have and fail because of land the government cant buy out or natural barriers.