The Defense Department revealed Tuesday that it has more than 20,000 unused border wall panels in storage that it is trying to dispose of after President Biden halted construction.
The Army Corps of Engineers pays $160,000 a month just to store the panels, Col. Jason Jefferis told the House Homeland Security Committee.
He said the materials are sitting with contractors and officials are trying to figure out what to do with it all. Neither he nor an acting deputy executive assistant commissioner at Customs and Border Protection were able to say just how much material the government has lost to scrap thanks to the construction halt.That’s a big improvement over two years ago, when there was even more material and the Defense Department figured it would cost $130,000 a day to store it all.
Mr. Biden, during the 2020 campaign, said he wouldn’t allow another foot of wall to be constructed, and while he’s had to eat those words, he has generally blocked the Trump plans to build some 200 more miles of barriers.
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