I think we all knew this was going to come sooner or later, Trump has officially declared a national emergency regarding what he calls "an invasion of the country" I don't know if everyone this section will agree with this, though I personally do think that a border wall (and more funding for border security) is necessary to combat the problems we have at our border.
Trump is going to be able to divert around $6.7B from other appropriated areas to use towards his wall + the money that was secured in the last spending bill, which I'm pretty sure is around 1.4b
Quote below is from the WSJ explaining where this money is coming from.
Included in that will be $2.5 billion that Mr. Trump will divert from the Department of Defenses counter-drug efforts, $600 million from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund and $3.6 billion from military construction efforts, Mr. Mulvaney said. The latter bucket of funds can only be accessed through an emergency declaration.
Lets see what yall think about this!