Trump could divert national disaster aid money for his border wall effort and how much would be the price?

Such a plan would drain the money Congress has set aside for civil works  and natural disasters….

Such a move would probably result int law suits, but more immediately, would have House Democrats inserting language prohibiting such a transfer of funds in ANYTHING that the Trump would sign afterwards…

Under the proposal, the officials said, Trump could dip into the $2.4 billion allocated to projects in California, including flood prevention and protection projects along the Yuba River Basin and the Folsom Dam, as well as the $2.5 billion set aside for reconstruction projects in Puerto Rico, which is still recovering from Hurricane Maria.

Senior Defense Department officials discussed the proposal with Trump during his Thursday flight to the southern border, according to officials familiar with the briefing.

Trump was informed that the Army Corps could build 315 miles of border wall in about 18 months, according to officials familiar with the planning. The barrier would be a 30-foot bollard-style wall with a feature designed to prevent climbing, the officials said.

The Corps would focus first on the heavily trafficked border areas along the Rio Grande Valley in Texas, in San Diego and El Centro in California, as well as Yuma, Arizona.

The White House did not immediately return a request for comment.

A source on Capitol Hill said if the president moves to pull money from Corps of Engineers civil works projects, Democrats in Congress are likely to submit legislation to block the money from being reallocated.

Asked about the proposal, a Democratic staffer warned that taking money from civil works projects in the U.S. will put American lives at risk…..

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Note…

The money that Trump is requesting to build his wall would only cover  234 miles….

The American/Mexican border is actually 1, 925 miles…

There is fencing on roughly 650 miles of border currently….

So there is roughly 6 times more border that Trump would need to cover completely and that cost would be OVER 30 to 40 BILLION with cost overruns such a big project would certainly have….

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