The United States will end up paying for President Donald Trump’s construction of wall on the Mexican border, according to Paul Ryan, the speaker of the US House of Representatives.
“First off, we’re going to pay for it and front the money,” he said in an interview with MSNBC on Wednesday, hours after Trump ordered construction of a long border wall between the US and Mexico to stop refugees.
Trump said in an earlier interview with ABC News that Mexico would reimburse “100 percent” of the 2,000-mile (3,200-kilometer) wall’s costs.
Ryan on Wednesday claimed that ordinary members of the Republican Party are committed to making Trump’s wall a reality, adding that there are “various ways” to force Mexico to pay for the project.
“There are a lot of different ways of getting Mexico to contribute to doing this,” he said. “There are different ways of defining how exactly they pay for it.”
“The point is, [Trump] has a promise that he…