Trump says Jerusalem embassy cost under $500K
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US President Donald Trump says he rejected a plan to spend $1 billion on the new US Embassy in Jerusalem and plans to do it for less than half a million dollars instead.
He says he "may go" to the embassy opening May 14.
Trump says he had started signing his name to a proposal when he noticed the eye-popping $1 billion figure. He says he called it off. Trump says US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman told him it could be done for a mere $150,000.
Trump says he didn't want to go that low and approved spending $300,000 or $400,000 instead. The embassy is moving from Tel Aviv.
Rather than build a new building, the US is retrofitting a small part of an existing American consular facility so the embassy can open quickly.
