Trump is ignoring the job of being president, but he is obsessing over and personally designing his border wall.
The Washington Post reported:
At a moment when the White House is diverting billions of dollars in military funds to fast-track construction, the president is micromanaging the project down to the smallest design details. But Trump’s frequently shifting instructions and suggestions have left engineers and aides confused, according to current and former administration officials.
Trump has demanded Department of Homeland Security officials come to the White House on short notice to discuss wall construction and on several occasions woke former secretary Kirstjen Nielsen to discuss the project in the early morning, officials said.
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Trump’s changing tastes are potentially driving up the price. He remains adamant that the barrier should be painted black, despite warnings that it would significantly increase construction costs and maintenance budgets.
Trump doesn’t have unlimited funds to build the wall. Democrats have introduced a bill that would limit the funds that he could take from the military. Trump’s micromanaging is costing the government money and driving up the cost of the wall. Trump wants a wall that is 30 feet high with spikes on top finished fast all across the Southern border, but the president keeps changing the design and details which means that he isn’t getting his wall built, but is killing the project through his insistence on pretending that he is a builder.
Trump is as good of a builder as he is a businessman. No one should be surprised if Trump is voted out of office in 2020, and the wall is never built because Donald Trump is so out of it that this supposed builder can’t give understandable instructions for building something as simple as a wall.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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