President Donald Trump will ask Congress for $8.6 billion to build 722 miles of wall on the southwest border to combat drug trafficking and illegal immigration, in a to-be-released budget for fiscal year 2020, according to officials familiar with the request.
The request is far more than the $1.4 billion Congress allocated for wall construction in January after a standoff between the president and Democrats, which led to a five-week partial government shutdown.
