Wait a Sec ... What Happened to "$5.7 Billion?"

Suddenly, overnight, the cost of a spectacular border wall balloons

Publisher’s Cut

by Charles Ellison | @ellisonreport

As the president finally rolled out his long-awaited national emergency declaration for a border wall of nowhere, something interesting happened: the price tag of it ballooned by 40 percent. What was for the longest time pitched, pimped, pushed and relentlessly peddled as $5.7 billion suddenly cost $8 b…