Claim: There was "an estimated $5.3 million of economic loss just for a few hours of shutting down the border. You're talking about millions and millions of dollars — billions of dollars — of economic consequence, if we continue with this rhetoric around shutting down the border without considering what that means."
Fact-check: Did California's border closure cost $5.3M in economic loss?
Verdict: mostly-true
Organisation: PolitiFact
Author: Chris Nichols
Date published: 2018-12-03T00:00:00