A White House aide said taxpayers would pay for the border wall

White House advisor Mercedes Schlapp admitted Wednesday that US taxpayers would pay for Trump President Donald John TrumpDem, a strategist, says his party's leaders are struggling to keep the contact with Mexican President China promises to buy a "substantial amount" of US goods and services, announced the US trade agency MORE for a US-Mexico border wall.

"Yes," Schlapp told CNN, urged by a reporter if taxpayers would ultimately pay for the wall. "And you know what taxpayers are paying for something else – the financial burden of this illegal immigration."

"We want an orderly and legal process of immigration," Schlapp added, while claiming that the Trump administration has not been ratified in the United States, Mexico and Canada . A trade agreement (USMCA) would lead to job growth and economic opportunities for US companies.

Schlapp and the White House previously acknowledged that the government would pay for the construction of a wall along the southern border. Schlapp, earlier Wednesday, had announced that the wall would be funded by the USMCA.

Trump told reporters this week that he was considering economic benefits such as Mexico paying "indirectly" the wall, although the trade agreement has not yet been approved by Congress and such benefits would not directly affect the US government.

"I consider that Mexico is paying absolutely for the wall," Trump told reporters this week in the Rose Garden.

CNN pointed out that the interim White House staff leader Mick Mulvaney John (Mick) Michael MulvaneyPence seeks the unity of the GOP, urging lawmakers to "stay strong" with Trump The Memo: Absent Paychecks May Put Trump in Mulvaney's Trap Recently He Was Informed Of The University's Preferred Position] Said Sunday That Building A "Wall-Border" Still Requires an appropriation "of federal funds by the Congress.

The president pleaded in favor of the Americans to support his wall project during a keynote speech at the Oval Office on Tuesday night.

"The wall will also be paid indirectly by the new trade agreement we have with Mexico," he said.

Since the election campaign, Trump has claimed that Mexico would pay a wall along its northern border. The country has repeatedly denounced such allegations.