Congress moves to build Trump's border wall in face of Democratic opposition

Congress this week plans to help President Trump uphold his top campaign promise to build a wall along the southern border when it votes on allocating $1.6 billion for the project.

But Democrats are vowing to keep it from becoming law.

The funding will be included in a group of fiscal 2018 spending bills, combined into one measure, that House lawmakers will vote on before leaving for the August recess.

The money would fund "physical barrier construction along the southern border, including bollards and levee improvements," according to the House Appropriations Committee. The funding level would match Trump's fiscal 2018 request.

"The president campaigned across America about making sure our borders are secure," Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said when he announced the pending vote. "The American public has requested it."