WINNING: Pentagon Awards First $1 Billion Contract To Build Trump's Wall

    The Pentagon awarded the first $1 billion contract to build President Donald Trump's border wall from Trump's national emergency declaration. 

     The Pentagon granted American based companies the money to build the wall. SLSCO Ltd. was granted a $789 million contract to build "30-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate" in Santa Teresa, New Mexico.  

     The Army Corps of Engineers awarded Barnard Construction Co.$187 million contract to build barriers in Yuma, Arizona. 

     The spokesman for the Department of Defense, Jamie Davis, told The Hill the contact covers a "30-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate" and an "18-foot bollard fencing and a five-foot anti-climb plate.”