The full version of President Trump’s envisioned wall would cost at least $25 billion, says Ed Zarenski, who spent 30 years figuring out project costs for one of the nation’s largest construction firms.
The current fight – and now 19-day federal government shutdown – over funding for a U. S.-Mexico border wall could look simple when you consider the logistics of actually building the fabled barrier: It would take an estimated 10,000 construction workers more than 10 years to build the kind of 1,000-mile wall that President Trump has said he wants.
Even the more modest $5.7 billion in wall funding that Trump directly requested during a primetime Oval Office address Tuesday to address what he called “a growing humanitarian and security crisis” would take an army of 10,000 workers more than two years to build and yield only 230 miles of barrier, according to estimates.
