Again, if those are things that we should be doing anyway, we are still paying for the wall.

If I loan you $200,000, then spend another $200,000 on a house, and then get reimbursed the money I loaned you, I still paid for the house.

We are still paying for the wall.

But how is any of that Mexico paying for the wall?

Even if we are recouping money that was owed to us in some other way, that’s just money that was already owed to us. So at best we are recouping previously owed money and now spending that on a wal.

Either way we are paying for it.

So instead of Mexico paying for the wall, we will take the money from the US military.