Border wall construction to continue past Inauguration Day

Published December 4, 2020 4:01pm ET



Thanks to congressional funding rules, the construction of President Trump’s border wall will continue into next year, no matter what the final outcome of the Electoral College election is.

Acting Deputy Homeland Security Secretary Ken Cuccinelli told us that because a chunk of the money for the project was appropriated by Congress, it has to be spent.

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