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The House will vote Thursday on a $788 billion budget bill that would fund the military for the next fiscal year and adds billions to border security.

A new video has been released which shows President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence signing a ‘Wall Act’ that would allow the Department of Homeland Security to appropriate up to $5 billion of existing Department of Defense funding to begin construction on the wall along the southern border.

Here's the first video of Trump signing the #TrumpWall Act. “It’s a way to get it started,” he says. pic.twitter.com/ZsU5jAaCTU — TheBeat w/Ari Melber (@TheBeatWithAri) March 23, 2017

Trump, in the video, says: “This is a very important step forward. We are signing today the final piece of legislation necessary to keep our government open and operating.”

He adds: “It’s a smart, strategic, see-through steel barrier,” before adding that he wanted “steel slats” but that “we also need a wall” and pointing to a spot on the wall where the rods would be “so high that you couldn’t climb it.”

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When asked if the border wall would be made of cement or steel in the bill, he said: “As long as it gets approved I’ll sign it.”

The bill passed the House by a 230-197 margin on Thursday afternoon. The vote is largely expected to pass the Senate as well and send the bill to Trump to sign into law before Friday's deadline.

While Trump and his team continue to tout the wall as a deal-maker, Democrats claim that the bill is inadequate and that Trump’s signature will be a major win for border hawks in his party. They insist that the US government needs to take more concrete steps to address immigration and border security as well as end the policy of separating families who are detained while crossing the border.

“The majority of the House, including Republicans, voted for more barriers on our borders. So I don’t understand how they can say this is the barrier,” Democratic Representative Nita Lowey said on the House floor.

Representative Lucille Roybal-Allard.

From California, said: “We need a barrier that can withstand presidential tweets...what we need is action, not political theater.”

In its 2017 Fiscal Year budget the Trump administration did include $1.6 billion for border security, which was identified as mainly barriers and fencing. However, it also allocated $1.5 billion for “additional tactical infrastructure and technology”.

Claiming that $1.6 billion for a border wall would be a waste of money, the White House had also proposed cutting the budget of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by $600 million, even though $426 million of that amount would have gone to enforcement, Khaalid Walls, the department's spokesperson, told the media.

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Walls told Politico that no funds would be taken from Immigrations and Customs Enforcement’s budget for people whose only crime is crossing the border illegally, and that the cuts would be distributed to other US government agencies.

Illegal crossings are at a 45-year low, which Trump has cited as evidence of the need for a wall, while critics point to the fact that between 1980 and 2000, arrests of undocumented migrants have jumped by more than sixfold, from less than 500,000 to over 2.5 million.

A national poll from Quinnipiac University found that 48 percent of US voters said they oppose building the wall, while 41 percent support it.