Biden quietly sells off border wall parts to thwart GOP push to use them
“President Biden has no regard for taxpayer dollars — or how his open border is bankrupting communities across the country that are footing the bill for his failures”
The Biden administration is quietly auctioning off millions of dollars’ worth of unused parts from former President Trump’s border wall for peanuts – in an apparent end-run around pending legislation in Congress.
Since April, GovPlanet, an online auction house specializing in military surplus, has sold 81 lots of steel “square structural tubes” — intended for use as vertical bollards in the border barrier’s 30-foot-tall panels — hauling in about $2 million. ---More...
Trump allocated $15B for a border wall.
— Congressman Byron Donalds (@RepDonaldsPress)August 17, 2023
Biden ended the project & worksites were abandoned.
2.5 yrs later we're still paying $160K a month for 21K unused wall panels to sit beside the border.
This is madness & dereliction of duty by @JoeBiden & @SecMayorkas.
Finish the wall! pic.twitter.com/rSB3RaTsab