President Trump is still considering ways to make Mexico pay for his promised border wall, despite floating the possibility of using military funds to build the wall, White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said Tuesday.
“I can tell you that the continuation of building the wall is ongoing, and we’re going to continue moving forward in that process,” Sanders told reporters at the White House.
Trump took to Twitter over the weekend to suggest some of the funding set aside for defense in the omnibus spending bill he signed last week could be diverted for construction of the border wall.
“Building a great Border Wall, with drugs (poison) and enemy combatants pouring into our Country, is all about National Defense,” Trump tweeted on Sunday.
But Sanders declined to elaborate on whether the use of military funds for the wall was an actual proposal Trump wanted to pursue.
“I’m not going to get into the specifics,” she said, although she said the wall is “necessary to defend the country.”
The White House spokeswoman also declined to describe any of the methods by which Trump might compel Mexico to pay for the border wall, as he promised as a candidate to do. Sanders noted only that Trump “plans to look at potential ways for that to happen.”
