These Bay Area Businesses Want to Build Trump's Border Wall
Nearly two dozen Bay Area companies have expressed interest in building Donald Trump's border wall, according to the federal government's website FedBizOpps.gov. They include Oakland and San Francisco construction firms and Silicon Valley surveillance-technology vendors, among others. Some have major contracts with local governments to build BART stations, add facilities at the Port of Oakland, and retrofit the Golden Gate Bridge.
The border wall, a centerpiece of Trump's campaign, is deeply divisive and unpopular in the Bay Area.
Today, an Oakland City Council committee approved legislation that would bar companies bidding on the border wall project from contracting with the city.
"If you want to do business with the city of Oakland, you will not participate in any way in building Mr. Trump's wall," said Oakland Councilmember Abel Guillen, the legislation's sponsor.
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