Why are the democrats so against giving Trump $5 billion for funding the border wall? It is a drop in the bucket. The feds spend $11.5 billion a day on average based on 2017 spending. $480 million an hour. We are talking 10 hours of gov't spending for the entire year. If they wholeheartedly believe it isn't going to help, then let Trump do it and they have another platform to show a failure on his part. The harder they push against it, the more it appears they have ulterior motive for letting the illegals just come in.