TRUMP: PENTAGON WILL BUILD WALL
Trump says he could use the MILITARY to build his wall if Congress won't fund it through Homeland Security's budget - and he won't rule out another government shutdown to get his way
- DailyMail.com asked the president on Air Force One if he was considering using the Army Corps of Engineers to build his border wall
- Congress has been stingy with a Homeland Security budget for the project, providing barely $3 billion and leaving another $25 billion unfunded
- Pentagon officials say the Corps of Engineers is suited to perform the work and Trump has boasted about budget increases he has won for the Pentagon
- Trump says: 'We have two options: We have military, we have homeland security'
- He also said he won't take a government shutdown off the table if Democrats on Capitol Hill keep playing hardball because of immigration politics
- He believes a shutdown would be strategically and politically smart
- But many Republican lawmakers are counseling patience because they fear being blamed for a shutdown in the final month of re-elecion campaigns
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