Write it down. A National Emergency declaration is coming.
Guaranteed.
Cool, the national emergency is a POTUS out of touch with reality, and is focused on one and only one thing, himself. Not you, not your family and not the United States of America.
Give him 5 billion to start on the fence, and this problem goes away.
So, what's the hold up?
He shut down the government, at an estimate cost of over 6 billion dollars. Is that the art of the deal?
Yes.
Give him the token he wants, and everything goes back to normal.