Biden Spent Way Too Much Defunding The Border

Written By BlabberBuzz | Monday, 26 July 2021 01:15 AM
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Biden Spent Way Too Much Defunding The Border

A new report by Republicans on a Senate subcommittee has concluded that the Biden administration is spending a minimum of roughly $2 billion to halt construction of the wall at the southern border, even amid an ongoing migrant crisis.

The report by the minority staff of the Government Operations and Border Management Subcommittee of the Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee determined that attempts to suspend or terminate wall construction plans at the Defense Department have cost between $1.8 billion to $2 billion and the administration is wasting $3 million every day.

"These interim findings show that the Biden administration’s efforts to stop border wall construction constitute significant waste of taxpayer resources," the report states. "As of the drafting of this report the Biden administration has paid border wall contractors at least $2 billion and counting to not build the border wall."

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"This $2 billion comes directly from DOD’s budget, and the Biden administration’s continued waste of these funds poses risks to national security and border security," it says.

Biden ended the Trump-era wall project, which saw 450 miles built throughout the Trump administration, on his first day in office with hundreds of miles still funded and contracts already underway. Biden ordered a review of the federal government’s obligations.

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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has since announced a plan on what to do with money assigned to the wall, while the administration redirected assigned funds from Pentagon accounts to the original projects for which they had been appropriated. The Defense Department (DOD) had $10 billion transferred from border wall construction and similar projects.

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After the order to suspend construction, the committee discovered that the Defense Department was originally occurring $6 million a day in "suspension costs," yet that was decreased to $3 million after layoffs. The money is being spent on "make safe and site security" projects.

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"This means that the federal government is paying contractors on these seven projects $3 million per day to drive out to project sites and guard the unused pallets of steel and other construction materials," the report said.

To get to the $2 billion total, the report uses DOD’s estimates laid out in court documents. Those measures include "suspension costs" for the project, which the subcommittee staff says either "significantly undercounted" the daily accrual of $3 million a day or was not completely included.

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"If the daily accrual of $3 million represents a separate cost not accounted in the broader DOD estimate of termination costs, then the total suspension costs will still be significantly higher than the estimate DOD provided to the Biden administration and to the courts," it says.

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