Funding for President Trump’s promised border wall will likely come in a supplemental funding request this year, Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said on Monday.
“We do expect to include some money in a future supplemental for 2017” for the wall, Mulvaney told reporters at the White House. Mulvaney’s comments suggest that the funding will be added to whatever budget Trump submits and be decided in a separate legislative battle devoted to funding for the wall, not as a fight over a larger spending bill that includes such funding.
Mulvaney said the budget that the administration began rolling out this week is only a “topline” budget.
“This is not a full-blown budget. That will not come until May,” Mulvaney said.
Trump’s budget director said the budget as it currently stands includes targets for each agency to hit with cuts, as well as recommendations for how each federal department can hit them. Agency officials may suggest other ways to reach the proposed topline funding targets, however.
