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”
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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
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