Looks like Trump plussing up the Pentagon’s budget paid off for him.
“The fact is… many killings, murders, crime, drugs pouring across the border, our money going out and the drugs coming in…I said we need to build a wall, and it has to be built quickly.”
— President Donald Trump
https://www.oann.com/report-pentagon-approves-transfer-of-1b-to-build-southern-border-wall/