As the deadlock over the border wall continues, President Trump has suggested building the wall from steel instead of concrete as a “compromise”.

It is unclear that this particularly alters the politics

or necessarily the engineering parameters

so from a political perspective this doesn’t look like it changes much.

One person who might benefit however, is Roman Abramovich. Abramovich is a Russian Oligarch who had his assets frozen not long ago

However, he still has controlling interests in steel companies in both the US and Canada and has benefited from past decisions such as the Keystone XL pipeline.