Trump Awards Largest Contract Yet for US-Mexico Border Wall

President Donald Trump has awarded a North Dakota construction company a major $1.3 billion contract to build a portion of his signature wall.

A Customs and Border Control agent patrolling on the U.S. side of a razor-wire-covered border wall along the Mexico east of Nogales, Ariz., on March 2, 2019. Charlie Riedel/AP Photo

President Donald Trump has awarded a North Dakota construction company a major $1.3 billion contract to build a portion of his signature wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

In the largest contract to date for the border wall, Fisher Sand and Gravel Co. will construct a 42-mile section of the wall through “really tough terrain in the mountains” in Arizona, North Dakota Sen. Kevin Cramer confirmed Wednesday.