To the editor:
President Trump wants $18 billion dollars to build a wall along the U.S. – Mexico border, but Congress’ lead watchdog now says the Trump administration has underestimated the cost of the project by billions of dollars.
During the 2016 campaign, the president bloviated that “Mexico will pay for the wall.” Not happening.
I have a suggestion for our president. If he is so committed and believes that a wall along the U.S.- Mexico border will solve immigration problems, Mr. Trump should offer to put up the first billion dollars for the construction of the wall. President Trump has informed us how rich he is, what a great business man he is, what a great “deal maker” he is. When I was growing up on the lower east side of Manhattan in the 1940’s and 1950’s, we had a an expression, “put up or shut up.”
Mr. President, if you are so committed to your wall, put up the first one billion dollars or “shut up.”
Howard W. Silbersher
Princeton