Trump claims border wall will actually save money

By Katelyn Caralle

Published December 3, 2018 2:24pm ET

Trump claims border wall will actually save money — In this Oct. 3, 2018 photo, a border fence in Columbus, N.M., sits along the U.S.-Mexico border at sunset. The small New Mexico village once attacked by Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa is rejecting talk of a wall and troops while embracing its legacy along the U.S.-Mexico border. U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis last week cited Villa's 1916 raid of Columbus, New Mexico, as an example for why President Trump was deploying active-duty troops to the U.S.-Mexico border. | (Russell Contreras/AP)

President Trump says building the $5 billion border wall will save the U.S. billions.

The president, however, warned Monday that even absent Democratic votes in Congress to fund the construction of a wall between the U.S. and Mexico, he’s willing to close the border to stop illegal immigration from the south.

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