Article snippet: On Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration was looking to “specific pots of money” to fund the bollard fencing that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has been constructing in San Diego, California, Calexico, California, El Paso, Texas, and in Santa Teresa, New Mexico. As Breitbart News Political Editor Matt Boyle notes, Huckabee and the Trump administration have provided no details as to where such funding would come from. Center for Immigration Studies Director of Policy Jessica Vaughan told Breitbart News that the position the president has been placed in — by his White House Legislative Affairs Director Shahira Knight and the Republican-controlled Congress — has left him begging for even the smallest levels of border funding. “The president has to beg Congress for money for a basic function of government that’s critical to our national security and that Americans want to see happen,” Vaughan said. Since March, Trump’s Defense Department has reviewed two avenues of potential funding to construct more barriers at the southern border, Just Security‘s Kate Brannen detailed at the time. One of those alternative funding routes is using the Defense Department’s more than $500 million that has been appropriated for counternarcotics programs. The additional second route is tapping into the Defense Department’s “MILCON” funding, where about $50 million can be used to construct barriers at the border without congression... Link to the full article to read more