A black-robed social justice warrior for the block. Update to this story.
Via Daily Mail:
President Donald Trump will go to Texas at the end of January for a ground breaking ceremony to construction a section of his border wall as he vowed that part will be completed by Election Day in 2020.
Trump made the announcement over Christmas. Meanwhile, the government shutdown entered day six on Thursday as he and Democrats battle it out over funding for his $5 billion wall.
The president also announced the government has awarded a contract to build a 115 mile section of the wall. No further details were given – including the bidding process, the amount and the contractor who won the award.
Trump spent his Christmas at the White House and doubled down hard on his border wall.
He waxed on about a stretch of the wall between the Mexico and Texas in a conversation with reporters in the Oval Office on Monday.
‘That’s a big stretch, because we’re talking about 500 to 550 miles. It’s a 2,000-mile border but much of it has mountain and region where you can’t get across,’ Trump said. ‘So we’re getting it between 500 and 550 (miles). And we gave out 115 yesterday, and we gave it out (the contracts) at a great price. So we’re going to have great wall there and we have other sections to give out.’
He added: ‘I’m going there at the end of January for the start of construction.’