Republican Senator Joni Ernst introduced legislation that would allow states to pick up what President Joe Biden’s executive order shut down.
One of Joe Biden’s first actions as president was to sign a series of executive orders reversing much of former President Donald Trump’s agenda.
Among them, one order halted construction of the southern border wall despite materials already being paid for and delivered.
The Department of Defense spends roughly $130,000 per day, or almost $50 million per year, in storage fees to keep and maintain the materials across 20 project sites.
A bill obtained by the Daily Caller, entitled the BUILD IT Act, attempts to resolve that glaring waste.
The legislation would require the federal government to transfer any stored material to any state upon request for use to construct or fortify the border wall.
“This week, due to President Biden’s failure, the southern border will go from crisis to catastrophe,” Ernst told the Caller.
“Instead of securing the border, the Biden administration canceled border wall projects and left materials to rack up dust and dollars. Here’s a simple solution, Mr. President: let’s put the border materials to use, end the taxpayer-funded waste, stop the unprecedented flow of illegal migrants, and finish the wall!” she added.
Title 42 On Its Last Legs
The catastrophe she alludes to is the impending end of Title 42 on May 11th. The public health measure enacted under the Trump Administration allowed the Department of Homeland Security to rapidly expel immigrants who crossed the border.
As it ends, officials expect a historic surge of crossings, which are already at a high of over 8,000 daily encounters. Officials expect that number could pass 10,000 encounters per day.
Tens of thousands of immigrants are waiting at or heading to cities just outside the border, waiting for Title 42 to officially be lifted before they attempt to cross – both legally and illegally.
“I think that there is no question that this is going to be extremely challenging,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. “I do not want to understate the severity of the challenge that we expect to encounter.”
BIDEN IS AN SENILE IDIOT!!!! HE IS A BIGGER WASTER OF TAX PAYER MONEY!!!! MAKE HIM PAY IT BACK . HE HAS BILIONS!!
Get wall up per state : TX NM AZ
Our useless Democrat governor Lujan-Grisham in New Mexico would not do a thing with those materials even if given to her for free – she would refuse them. She told the State Police to stand down and not pursue any “got-away” illegals they encountered and refused to send a single National Guard trooper to enforce the existing laws, whereas Texas Gov Abbot sent troops and concertina wire to the border this weekend and physically prevented the illegals from entering the United States – left them stranded on the banks or in the river! YAY!
>> “I think that there is no question that this is going to be extremely challenging,” Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said. “I do not want to understate the severity of the challenge that we expect to encounter.” <<
Here is a guy that has NO political future but by doing the Dems dirty work and taking the flak for it (let's face it: Biden is not POTUS; when he was elected it was the Dem Party and its operatives who were put in charge) he will earn a cushy job at some Dem-run "think tank" like Brookings or the Center for American Progress.
The wall needs to be put up NOW!
We have dumb a-ses running our borders, especially Biden,Alejandro Mayorkas and bone head Kamala Harris.Why in the the Hell we vote them in . They get a F-cking F for failure send them back were they came from in the basement were the rest of the rats go too.