In this Nov. 21 photo, United States Border Patrol agents stand by a vehicle near the border of Tijuana, Mexico, and San Diego. (Gregory Bull/AP)If neither Mexico nor Congress is going to fund President Trump’s border wall, then Brian Kolfage has a more expedient plan: GoFundMe. In just four days, the military veteran’s crowdsourced campaign for construction of the border wall has raked in more than $5.6 million in donations from more than 92,000 people. Trump had previously said he would be “proud” to shut down the government to get his wall money. On Wednesday, Congress passed a short-term spending bill to avoid a shutdown by the Friday deadline — but that bill contained no money for Trump’s border wall, leaving its future in question as Democrats take over the House next month.

Source: Washington Post December 20, 2018 11:11 UTC