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What Trump Can and Can’t Do to Get His Border Wall

The president is reportedly mulling alternative avenues to deliver on his campaign promise.
Source: Brian Snyder / Reuters

President Donald Trump tonight will hold a nationally televised speech to address the impasse over the border wall. Because Democrats have refused to appropriate approximately $5 billion for the construction project, Trump is reportedly mulling alternative avenues to deliver on his campaign promise.

Here’s what he can do under the law, and what he can’t.

Trump has two traditional statutory avenues.

He could

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