Rolling Analysis

Border Security Funding Increases

33 percent is a huge increase, but evidently still not enough to cover the wall.

Budget & Tax, National Security, | Analysis

Mar 13, 2019 | 24 sec read | Print Article

In it’s FY20 budget request, the Trump Administration is proposing a whopping 33 percent funding increase for “Border Security and Immigration.” Virtually all of this increase is for “security.” But even this huge increase is not enough to fund the $8.6 billion President Trump is requesting for his border wall.