At her press briefing, Karoline Leavitt was asked about the border wall.
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00:00Hi, one of my main questions is when will the border wall be completed because it's been talked about for a very long time and a lot of people want to know when can we expect that to be done?
00:12Sure. I don't have an official timeline for you, but certainly it's a priority of the administration.
00:18The president has talked about this for years, right? It was his signature campaign promise dating back to 2016.
00:24People laughed at him when he originally brought this idea up, but now the whole world recognizes a border wall is effective.
00:31It's a necessary means to secure your nation's territorial borders.
00:35Democrats like to have borders outside of their homes or walls outside of their homes for a reason because they know it repels invaders.
00:42And that's why the president wants to do that at the southern border.
00:44There has been more than 85 miles built just since January 20th.
00:48It's obviously the goal of this administration to build as much border wall as we possibly can.
00:52And we need Congress's help to do that. We need more federal funding.
00:56The president's working closely with Speaker Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Thune to pass a solid reconciliation package that not only provides more funding for our ICE agents and Border Patrol agents on the ground, but to continue construction of that border wall as well.