'We're tired of being right' about the border, says budget director on Trump's new wall money ask

Russell Vought, acting White House budget director, said Monday security at the southern U.S. border is "deteriorating by the day," and he's blaming Democrats for refusing to approve President Donald Trump's repeated requests for wall funding.

"This is an area of where we're tired of being right," Vought said on CNBC's "Squawk Box," referring to a government report of a record number of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

The White House is expected to release Trump's budget proposal for fiscal year 2020 Monday, which is expected to seek $8.6 billion from Congress for additional barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

That amount would be on top of the funds Trump will redirect from other programs as part of his national emergency, said Vought, who's minding the Office of Management and Budget after previous OMB head Mick Mulvaney left the agency to become the president's acting chief of staff.

Trump's declaration last month, aimed at circumventing Congress to pay for his wall, is currently being challenged by more than a dozen states. They say Trump is "trying to rob funds that were allocated by Congress legally to various states."

According to the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, more than 76,000 migrants crossed the U.S.-Mexico border last month, more than double the number from the same period last year. The figures help Trump's case for his border emergency, albeit one built around a humanitarian crisis and not security.

Congress is unlikely to approve Trump's budget proposal because Democrats, who staunchly oppose building a wall, control the House, and any spending bill modeled after the president's plan would need bipartisan support in the Republican-controlled Senate.

Vought said he'll be testifying over the next to days in hopes of finding out where the White House and Democrats can find common ground.

Trump's budget proposal also projects that the economy will continue to grow at a 3 percent rate or higher over the next five years, despite a more pessimistic consensus from outside forecasters.

— CNBC's Ylan Mui and AP contributed to this report.

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