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An additional 40 miles (64 km) [2] of new primary barriers were built during Donald Trump's first presidency, though Trump had repeatedly promised a "giant wall" spanning the entire border. [5] The national border's length is 1,954 miles (3,145 km), of which 1,255 miles (2,020 km) is the Rio Grande [ 6 ] and 699 miles (1,125 km) is on land.
The order did not estimate a cost for the wall project. [14] An internal report by the Department of Homeland Security acquired by Reuters in February 2017 estimated that Trump's proposed border wall would take an estimated 3.5 years to build and cost $21.6 billion.
Border-crossers can use simple power tools to saw through a wall that cost an estimated $20 million per mile to build. In some sections, still-severed pillars glide open with the push of a hand.
Cost estimates of the proposed wall vary widely. In early 2017, shortly after Trump took office, the DHS estimated the cost at $22 billion, [120] while Democratic staff on the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee estimated $70 billion to build the wall and $150 million in annual maintenance. [121]
The newspaper said a nearby extension was started under the Trump administration ― at a cost of $35 million a mile ― but didn’t get very far, with much of the construction material left in ...
Also, estimates put the cost of Trump's border wall project significantly higher than the cost of HealthCare.gov. Our fact-check sources: USA TODAY, May 28, 2020, ...
The president of Mexico rejected the idea of providing any funding for a U.S. border wall. In 2018, Trump requested $21.5 billion in federal funding for some 700 miles (1,100 km) of barrier on the border, mostly to replace 654 miles (1,053 km) of aging fence built under the Secure Fence Act of 2006.
While Trump pushed to build a wall between the U.S. and Mexico during his first term in office, only 52 miles of the 458 constructed under his presidency were new structures, rather than replacements.