WASHINGTON – Trump Wants 2 Billion For Boarder Wall. US President Donald Trump will request $2 billion in funding for border wall construction in his 2021 budget.
According to details by senior administration officials, this amount is substantially less than the last year. The lower request shows that the administration needs fewer new resources to build the wall along the US-Mexico border. This also comes after funds were to the construction project from the US military.
A year ago, the Trump administration asked Congress to provide $5 billion for the wall. This was on top of $3.6 billion to replenish funding the administration had taken from military construction projects. Trump Wants 2 Billion For Boarder Wall.
“Illegal aliens from Mexico are going to pay for the wall … through remittance, 100 percent,” Trump said. The White House on Monday will also propose a big jump in US government spending on artificial intelligence (AI) and quantum information sciences research and development in its 2021 budget proposal.
The Trump administration wants Congress to double spending on AI R&D funding from $973 million to nearly $2 billion by 2022 and to double spending on quantum information sciences spending to $860 million within two years.