An ally of President Donald Trump on CNN argued Mexico "could" still pay for the wall and that it could actually be "easy" to accomplish.
During a Sunday discussion, Steve Cortes echoed some of the president's own promises, that it would be "easy" to get money from Mexico for the wall. "Just rely on me," Trump promised in a speech.
"The promise for the wall was a foundational promise of 2016. Perhaps the foundational promise," Cortes said of Trump's voters. Today, a whopping 59 percent of Americans admit they don't want the wall. To make matters worse, more Americans also blame Trump for the shutdown (47 percent) over Democrats (33 percent).
"He was unambiguous," Cortes said about Trump's demand for a large, concrete border wall. Trump even said in a 2016 CNN Republican debate that the wall "just got taller" after former Mexican President Vicente Fox proclaimed "I'm not paying for that f*cking wall."
"The people handed him that. The Mexicans can still pay," Cortes continued. "That's easy to do down the road, very easy. Tax remittances. Let me tell you this. If the president does not hold the line on this, people like me, people who worked hard for his 2016 election, are going to have a hard time talking in 2020."
Sunday, Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) also relayed Trump's thoughts on the wall as well as Syria.
"The wall is a metaphor," Graham said. It left many wondering how nothing more than a metaphor could cost American taxpayers $5 billion.
Trump received money for border security in 2017 and only spent 6 percent of it and the White House has never disclosed why.
Watch Cortes below:
