Does the Constitution Allow Trump to Build the Wall Without Congressional Approval? With President Donald Trump and the Democrats in Congress locked in a fight over whether to fund a wall on the southern border of the United States with Mexico, a dispute that has led to a partial shutdown of the federal government, Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden on Friday at the White House that he could build the wall even without congressional funding (and he is absolutely CORRECT) https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/31112-does-the-constitution-allow-trump-to-build-the-wall-without-congressional-approval