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Problem:President Donald Trump, who earlier this year issued an executive order to promptly begin construction of his promised border wall with Mexico, has so far only scraped together less than 0.1% of the project's expected $21.6 billion budget, Reuters reported on Wednesday. 
  
 That's according to an internal Department of Homeland Security report on what funding the agency has available to re-direct towards the wall, Reuters reported. According to the report, while the $20 million is enough to begin prototyping the project, DHS estimates each mile of fencing will cost $9.3 million and each mile of actual wall would run as high as $17.8 million. 
  
 Thus the president has shifted enough funding to erect approximately one whole mile of wall. 
  
 That means Trump will be forced to go to a Republican-controlled Congress to appropriate funding for the project, where he will run up against conservative legislators demanding any increases in government spending be offset by spending cuts to other federal outlays. 
  
 Trump has promised to increase the budget of the U.S. military by 10%, or $54 billion, and has proposed cutting tens of billions of dollars from the Environmental Protection Agency and State Department's discretionary budgets in order to pay for it. 
  
 While the president has repeatedly promised to force the government of Mexico to pay for the wall, the Mexican government has unsurprisingly not been forthcoming with the demanded funds. ||||| President Trump's border wall project has reportedly hit a road block. 
  
 Trump issued an executive order in January calling to start the U.S.-Mexico border project with "existing funds" of the Department of Homeland Security. 
  
 But Reuters reported Wednesday that the department only came up with $20 million that can be redirected to the multibillion-dollar project. That sum would be able to finance contracts for prototypes, but would not cover breaking ground on the project. 
  
 The agency reportedly said it would reallocate about $5 million from a fence project in Arizona that came in under budget and $15 million from a project to install cameras on top of Border Patrol trucks. 
  
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 Reuters viewed the document prepared by the agency and distributed last week to congressional budget staff. 
  
 The Government Accountability Office estimated a wall would cost on average $6.5 million a mile for a fence to keep out people who try to enter on foot and $1.8 million a mile for vehicle barriers. There are currently 354 miles of pedestrian fencing and 300 miles of vehicle barriers. 
  
 The wall is reportedly expected to cost $21.6 billion – blowing far past earlier estimates. Trump initially said the wall could cost $12 billion. 
  
 The lack of funds in the agency would mean that the White House would have to convince Congress to grant the funds needed to start construction. 
  
 The border wall was Trump’s key campaign promise and his insistence that Mexico would pay for it was extremely popular among his supporters, sparking enthusiastic cheers at his raucous rallies.Though Trump has insisted Mexico will eventually pay the U.S. back, American taxpayers are expected to foot the bill. 
  
 Click for more from Reuters. ||||| President Donald Trump's plans to build a wall along the United States' southern border is inflaming relations between the United States and Mexico. It's a contentious issue, considering the border wall would cost billions of dollars. 
  
 On Thursday, Trump threatened to cancel a meeting with Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto, after Peña Nieto reiterated that Mexico would not pay for it. 
  
 On Thursday, Senate leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky, said Congress will follow through on Trump's border wall order, and McConnell estimated it will cost $15 billion at most — he cited a range of $12 billion to $15 billion. 
  
  
  
 The U.S. border with Mexico is roughly 2,000 miles long and underlines four states, from California to Texas, more than half of it along the Colorado River and Rio Grande. It is a massive stretch of land — the Berlin Wall spanned just 96 miles comparatively, and it cost about $25 million to build in 1961, or around $200 million with inflation. 
  
 Building a wall to keep out illegal immigrants is not a novel plan. About 670 miles of fencing on the U.S.–Mexico border was completed in accordance with the Bush administration's Secure Fence Act of 2006. That alone cost about $2.4 billion, for roughly one-third of the entire border and, according to migration experts, some of the easier and less costly areas to fence. 
  
 The Secure Fence Act called for 700 miles of fencing, with a double layer throughout, but much of the barrier isn't reinforced this way. Even before the fence reached its first stage of completion, some argued it was not being constructed properly. 
  
 "It's a lot more expensive than we expected when we started, and it was much more difficult," said Ronald Vitiello, deputy chief of border patrol for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, at a Senate Committee hearing in May 2015. 
  
 Texas Rep. Michael McCaul, chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, said in a January 2015 statement to right-leaning publication Daily Caller (founded by Fox News commentator Tucker Carlson and former Dick Cheney advisor Neil Patel) that "in our conversations with outside groups, experts and stakeholders, we learned that it would be an inefficient use of taxpayer money to complete the fence. … We are using that money to utilize other technology to create a secure border." ||||| House Speaker Paul Ryan says President Donald Trump’s border wall will cost $12 billion to $15 billion — and Ryan says Congress will pay for it by this fall. 
  
 Congress will move legislation this year providing up to $15 billion to build a wall along the Mexican boundary, Republican leaders said Thursday at their annual strategy retreat. But they would not say how they would prevent the massive project from adding to federal deficits.Ryan said the goal is to complete that and other major bills in 2017, but the leaders offered no details on how the wall would be paid for, saying they would wait until the Trump administration proposes legislation. 
  
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 Trump is set to speak to the lawmakers later Thursday — a day after signing an executive order calling for the wall. 
  
 Trump has repeatedly said Mexico will pay for the wall, but Mexican leaders oppose it and have said they won’t finance it. 
  
 Congress will pay for “the construction of the physical barrier on the border,” Ryan said. 
  
 “We intend to address the wall issue ourselves,” Senate Majority leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said. 
  
 Pressed on whether construction would increase federal deficits, Ryan said Republicans are fiscal conservatives. He said strengthening the economy and replacing President Barack Obama’s health care system were two of the best ways to bolster the government’s budget. 
  
 “If we’re going to be spending on things like infrastructure, we’re going to find the fiscal space to pay for that” in a budget Congress plans to write this spring, Ryan said. 
  
 Ryan had previously used figures ranging from $8 billion to $14 billion as his estimate for the cost of the wall. 
  
 Trump was to speak Thursday to House and Senate GOP lawmakers at their annual policy retreat. Despite a rocky start to his administration, many lawmakers are optimistic about delivering change in a new era of GOP control over Washington. 
  
 They would like to see a Trump committed to their agenda and results, not a president who veers off course into conspiracy theories about voter fraud or who keeps litigating the size of his inaugural crowds. 
  
 Before Trump’s appearance, Ryan sketched out an ambitious agenda to lawmakers that includes sending Trump a health care repeal bill by March and a rewrite of tax laws by summer’s end. 
  
 “I’m just so excited we finally have a chance to do this because we have the House and the Senate and a president who is with us,” Ryan told MSNBC on Wednesday about plans to overhaul the tax system, eliminating what critics say are loopholes and lowering corporate rates to 20 percent or even the 15 percent sought by Trump. 
  
 “If you can clean up the cesspool of the tax code and give us a pro-growth tax code, that is how you grow the economy, that is how you take power and money out of Washington and give it back to the people,” he said. 
  
 Associated Press writer Errin Haines Whack contributed to this report. ||||| WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump’s promise to use existing funds to begin immediate construction of a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border has hit a financial roadblock, according to a document seen by Reuters. 
  
 The rapid start of construction, promised throughout Trump’s campaign and in an executive order issued in January on border security, was to be financed, according to the White House, with “existing funds and resources” of the Department of Homeland Security. 
  
 But so far, the DHS has identified only $20 million that can be re-directed to the multi-billion-dollar project, according to a document prepared by the agency and distributed to congressional budget staff last week. 
  
 The document said the funds would be enough to cover a handful of contracts for wall prototypes, but not enough to begin construction of an actual barrier. This means that for the wall to move forward, the White House will need to convince Congress to appropriate funds. 
  
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 An internal report, previously reported by Reuters, estimated that fully walling off or fencing the entire southern border would cost $21.6 billion - $9.3 million per mile of fence and $17.8 million per mile of wall. 
  
 A general view shows a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border fence at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico January 26, 2017. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez 
  
 DHS officials did not respond to a request for comment on this story. 
  
 Trump has said he will ask Congress to pay for what existing funds cannot cover and that Mexico will be pressured to pay back U.S. taxpayers at a later date. 
  
 Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan has said he will include funding for a border wall in the budget for next fiscal year. He has estimated the cost to be between $12 billion and $15 billion. 
  
 Many Republican lawmakers have said they would vote against a plan that does not offset the cost of the wall with spending cuts. 
  
 In the document it submitted to Congress, the DHS said it would reallocate $5 million from a fence project in Naco, Arizona, that came in under budget and $15 million from a project to install cameras on top of trucks at the border. 
  
 The surveillance project was awarded to Virginia-based Tactical Micro, but was held up due to protests from other contractors, according to the DHS document. Tactical Micro could not be reached for comment. 
  
 The DHS only searched for extra funds within its $376 million budget for border security fencing, infrastructure and technology, so it would not have to ask for congressional approval to repurpose funding, according to the document. 
  
 Contractors cannot begin bidding to develop prototypes until March 6 but more than 265 businesses already have listed themselves as “interested parties” on a government web site. 
  
 Those interested range from small businesses to large government contractors such as Raytheon (RTN.N). |||||
Solution:
Administration officials may have to mine the Oval Office couch for loose change in the wake of the latest financial report from the Department of Homeland Security. Per a DHS document Reuters saw, the agency has pored over the "existing funds and resources" President Trump said would be tapped to pay for a wall along the country's border with Mexico, and it only came up with about $20 million—or $21.58 billion short of the $21.6 billion it's expected to take to erect a wall and accompanying fence along the entire stretch. The report, which DHS is said to have presented to congressional budget staff last week, notes that amount could get some signatures on contracts for wall prototypes, but it wouldn't cover breaking ground on any structures. Mic notes that, based on DHS estimates, the newly found reserves would pay for "one whole mile of wall"; the US-Mexico border spans about 2,000 miles, per CNBC. Trump's wall plans, spelled out in a January executive order, stated that the US would pay for the wall with government funds and that reimbursement would later come from Mexico (though Mexico has said repeatedly it won't be paying a cent). Fox News notes that Trump initially said the wall would cost just $12 billion; he said at the time that wall-building would begin in just "months." That timeline may need to be tweaked as the president likely goes to Plan B for making up the shortage: asking Congress for the rest. Speaker Paul Ryan has previously indicated he'd work funding for the wall, which he estimates would cost between $12 billion and $15 billion, into the next fiscal year's budget.