{"id":392469,"date":"2019-01-11T18:00:58","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-military-prepares-options-to-build-trumps-border-wall\/"},"modified":"2019-01-11T18:00:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T17:00:58","slug":"presstv-us-military-prepares-options-to-build-trumps-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-us-military-prepares-options-to-build-trumps-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-US military prepares options to build Trump\u2019s border wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>The US Defense Department is preparing options to build a wall on the US-Mexico border in the event that President Donald Trump declares a national emergency, the latest sign that such a move is gaining support within the White House.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Department of Defense is reviewing available authorities and funding mechanisms to identify options to enable border barrier construction,&#8221; said US Navy Captain Bill Speaks, a Pentagon spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As there has not been such a declaration made, it would be inappropriate to comment further on those efforts,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump threatened on Thursday to use emergency powers to bypass Congress to pay for a wall on the country\u2019s southern border and end the ongoing partial government shutdown that began on December 22.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s declaration of an emergency at the southern border would allow the US Army Corps of Engineers to design barriers and allow contractors to build them.<\/p>\n<p>Lieutenant General Todd Semonite, who&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/11\/585497\/US-Defense-Department-military-Trump-border-wall\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Defense Department is preparing options to build a wall on the US-Mexico border in the event that President Donald Trump declares a national emergency, the latest sign that such a move is gaining support within the White House. &#8220;The Department of Defense is reviewing available authorities and funding mechanisms to identify options to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392469","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}