Jared Kushner’s new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump’s border wall
President Donald Trump has made Jared Kushner, his son-in-law, the point person on issues related to the long-promised wall along the southern border with Mexico, giving him wide authority to convene meetings and allocate resources in order to get swaths of the structure built by the next election, The Washington Post reported Monday.
But Kushner has already butted heads with some senior officials who say he doesn’t understand how difficult it is to build a structure that stretches nearly the entire length of the country’s southern border. The Post notes that much of the barrier that the administration has its eyes on will need to be built on private land, resulting in more than 800 filings to seize the property through eminent domain.
Story continues“We think we can get it close to 500 miles by the end of next year, depending on certain terrain conditions,” Trump said in September, according to The New York Times. “We’re building it at breakneck speed.” Trump’s delegation to his son-in-law adds the wall effort to Kushner’s vast portfolio of responsibilities, which has included efforts to forge peace in the Middle East, transform the U.S. immigration and criminal justice systems and help guide Trump’s reelection campaign.
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