How do you build seven hundred miles of border wall in a year? Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin says it's possible. Axios checked the math and found it doesn't add up. Only ten percent of the planned wall is done. The remaining six hundred ninety-eight miles are being built at roughly two point six miles per week. To meet Mullin's deadline of next June, construction would need to reach thirteen miles per week—five times the current pace. Even this year's fastest stretch—four miles between June fifth and tenth—falls far short. The obstacles are significant: land acquisition lawsuits, incomplete designs, and environmental reviews that have been waived to speed up the project. Even the CBP commissioner recently hedged, suggesting the wall might be done by the end of twenty twenty-seven instead.

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