Key Senate Republicans open-minded about the military building Trump’s wall

The Republican chairmen of the Senate’s armed services and appropriations committees both said Tuesday they would consider President Trump’s newest suggestion that the Pentagon build his southern border wall.

The president again floated military construction as a secondary option as he faced off with Democrats and prepared Tuesday to enter a meeting with Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and the likely next House speaker, Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., over the $5 billion in border wall funding he wants added into appropriations bills this month.