{"id":29580,"date":"2018-12-11T15:29:32","date_gmt":"2018-12-11T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2018\/12\/11\/trump-says-troops-could-finish-building-border-wall\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T10:15:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T10:15:22","slug":"trump-says-troops-could-finish-building-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/leadership\/2018\/12\/11\/trump-says-troops-could-finish-building-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says troops could finish building border wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2014 President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday that military personnel <\/a>would finish building sections of his proposed security wall along the U.S. southern border <\/a>if congressional Democrats refuse to provide funding for the project, a move that would appear to violate a series of government rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIf the Democrats do not give us the votes to secure our Country, the Military will build the remaining sections of the Wall,\u201d Trump wrote in an early morning series of tweets expressing frustration over the budget fight. \u201cThey know how important it is!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Democrats have repeatedly blamed Trump for unnecessarily injecting the military <\/a>into the national immigration debate, most recently by mobilizing thousands of active-duty troops to provide assistance to federal officials conducting border security missions there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his social media posts, Trump praised that effort, saying \u201cBorder Patrol and our Military have done a FANTASTIC job of securing our Southern Border\u201d and asserting that temporary barbed-wire fences and other barriers set up by the troops have helped discourage illegal border crossings.<\/p>\n\n\n\t