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    Using Pentagon Money To Pay For A Border Wall Is Harder Than It Seems

    President Trump spoke to Defense Secretary James Mattis about using military money to build the wall. But Congress — and the Constitution — might get in the way.
    by Kelsey Snell Mar 30, 2018 2 minutes
    President Trump (center) is shown border wall prototypes in San Diego, Calif., on March 13, 2018.

    President Trump couldn't convince Congress to sign off on a $25 billion request to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico and efforts to get the Pentagon to pick up the tab may be hitting another kind of wall.

    Pentagon press secretary Dana White told reporters Thursday that Secretary of Defense James Mattis spoke with Trump about the

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