Trump walks up the steps the steps of Air Force One at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla.
"We achieved the single largest increase in border security funding in ten years… with enough money to make a down payment on border wall," Trump stated. "We’re putting up a lot of new walls in certain areas, we’re putting up a tremendous amount of money to fix the existing structures that we have, some of which we can keep into the future."
The 2017 Consolidated Appropriations Act contains $1.5 billion for border security, which Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said on Monday would be used for things that will have a material impact on border security besides a brick-and-mortar wall.
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