President Trump could very well make U.S. consumers, not the Mexican government, pay for the Great Wall of America. According to a pool report from the New York Times’ Michael Shear, Press Secretary Sean Spicer said that his boss has settled on a 20% tax on all goods imported from Mexico. Exactly how this would work wasn’t disclosed, just the fact that Trump had chosen this particular mechanism as the way to fund the wall he ordered Wednesday to be built. Spicer said the tax would be included in the comprehensive tax reform measure Republicans in Congress are expected to move this year. If Trump had told them they were going to be paying for the wall, they probably would have been less enthusiastic about the idea.

Source: Los Angeles Times January 26, 2017 22:45 UTC