Might I Suggest...

Trump using every lever. https://t.co/taR3cajXHh

— Ted Mann (@TMannWSJ) October 27, 2020

...an alternative "lever"?

NEW from @Perla_Trevizo @JinATX @TexasTribune @propublica: Records show @realDonaldTrump’s border wall is costing taxpayers billions more than initial contracts https://t.co/YovuxddvgN #tx2020 #txlege

— Evan Smith (@evanasmith) October 27, 2020

On the same day in May 2019, the Army Corps of Engineers awarded a pair of contracts worth $788 million to replace 83 miles of fence along the southwest border.

The projects were slated to be completed in January 2020, the Corps said then. Four months into this year, however, the government increased the value of the contracts by more than $1 billion, without the benefit of competitive bidding designed to keep costs low to taxpayers.

Within a year of the initial award, the value of the two contracts had more than tripled, to over $3 billion, even though the length of the fence the companies were building had only grown by 62%, to 135 miles. The money is coming from military counter-narcotics funding.

Those contract spikes were dramatic, but not isolated. A ProPublica/Texas Tribune review of federal spending data shows more than 200 contract modifications, at times awarded within just weeks or months after the original contracts, have increased the cost of the border wall project by billions of dollars since late 2017. This is particularly true this year, in the run-up to next week’s election. The cost of supplemental agreements and change orders alone — at least $2.9 billion — represents about a quarter of all the money awarded and more than what Congress originally appropriated for wall construction in each of the last three years.

President Donald Trump made construction of the border wall a signature issue during his 2016 campaign, claiming that his skills as a builder and businessman would allow his administration to build the wall in a more cost-efficient way than his predecessors. “You know the wall is almost finished,” he told a crowd of supporters in Arizona recently, and they weren’t paying a “damn cent” for the border wall. It was “compliments of the federal government.”

Yet an accounting of border wall contracts awarded during his presidency shows that his administration has failed to protect taxpayer interests or contain costs and stifled competition among would-be builders, experts say. In all, Trump’s wall costs about five times more per mile than fencing built under the Bush and Obama administrations.

Or we can talk about $3 glasses of water:

Trump and Japanese PM Abe met privately at one point during Mar-a-Lago visit.
There was no meal service.
But Trump still found a way to get paid - his resort charged US taxpayers $3 for every glass of water Abe drank. @Fahrenthold https://t.co/yV3P5Mc6FO

— Greg Miller (@gregpmiller) October 27, 2020

Or the flowers:

I would really like to know why Mar-a-Lago’s florist charged taxpayers to remove white and yellow flowers from the club before the Japanese PM arrived!

I tried the florist. But she had had signed a non-disclosure agreement. https://t.co/NUaQMjc3ej

— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 27, 2020

Grifters gotta grift.