Jared Kushner to oversee construction of 400 Miles of new border wall, but critics suggest he'll 'get frustrated before he gets results'

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Jared Kushner to oversee construction of 400 Miles of new border wall, but critics suggest he'll 'get frustrated before he gets results'
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Jared Kushner has been made the de facto project manager of the construction of 400 miles of Trump's border wall.

Jared Kushner has been made the de facto project manager of the construction of 400 miles of Trump's border wall, according to current and former administration officials who have spoken to theCharacterizing the President as frustrated with the lack of progress done so far on the wall, thesays that Kushner also convenes biweekly meetings at the White House, where he tracks contractor data, spending matters and location issues, including encouraging 800 filings demanding the seizure of...

The sources allege that Kushner is"pressing" U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expedite the matter of the wall, hoping to meet the president's longterm campaign goal of putting 450 miles of fresh border wall in place by the end of 2020. Some in the administration have allegedly reacted in a negative manner to the aggressive manner with which Kushner sought to build the wall.

Trump's original campaign promise was to construct the wall and get Mexico to pay for it as part of his tough-on-illegal-immigration stance. But the Mexican government has been recalcitrant on the subject, refusing to pay for the project, nor has Congress been willing to pay for the wall.

Jared Kushner has allegedly taken over construction of the border wall, according to Washington Post sources.But some of Kushner's alleged ideas—such as installing webcams to cover the construction, building large ditches beside the border, crafting support beams with pointy spikes or painting the wall matte black, trapping heat against it and making it hot to the touch—have been unpopular with some officials.

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