Border wall will cost $21.6 billion, Homeland Security report says

[JonLP24]

The estimate is almost double the cost cited by President Donald Trump.

Building a wall or other barrier along the entire U.S.-Mexico border would cost about $21.6 billion, and take up to three and a half years to complete, according to an internal Department of Homeland Secretary document.

The estimate is almost double the cost cited by President Donald Trump — who made a border wall built at Mexico's expense his signature issue throughout the presidential race — as well as new DHS Secretary John Kelly, who commissioned the report.

The document containing the estimate, first reported by Reuters, lays out a three-phase plan about where construction could begin along the 1,250 miles of border without physical barriers and it details challenges to constructing a wall.


http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/border-issues/2017/02/10/border-wall-cost-21-billion-homeland-security-report/97747620/

[Bengus81]

1. Let's see them get a bid and a airtight contract for that amount....

That means NO overages,NO cost overruns no nothing. Watch....then the contract JUMPS to $30 BILLION or more or,the company doing the job just ends up going bankrupt.

So...I'm guessing they figure that first 750 miles of pipes in the ground is good enough?? I've never heard them say they now need to do the entire 2000 miles. SO why do they need this massive concrete wall structure for the rest?? In fact WHY do they need any of it?

I know....FOLLOW THE MONEY,especially on this SCAM job.