A groundbreaking report launched by Senator James Lankford (R-OK), the lead Republican on the Senate Homeland Safety and Governmental Affairs Subcommittee on Authorities Operations and Border Administration, finds that halting southern border wall development has price U.S. taxpayers a minimum of $2 billion.

The brand new report examines the fiscal prices related to Division of Protection (DOD) contractors stopping wall development alongside the U.S.-Mexico border. On January 20, President Biden signed an govt order that prevented these contractors from constructing any new wall.

Senator Lankford has vehemently
opposed the Biden administration’s reckless choice, calling it “completely
absurd that Individuals are paying contractors to protect steel gates that
President Biden refuses to put in as a result of he desires to ‘examine’ the wall.”

Beneath are some key findings from
the examine:

  • President Biden’s efforts to droop or terminate border wall development have price U.S. taxpayers between $1.837 billion and $2.087 billion since January 20, 2021. This quantity continues to extend by a minimum of $3 million per day.
  • On the finish of the Trump administration, $10 billion had been transferred to the DOD for border wall development and associated tasks. As of June 2021, the Biden administration has wasted roughly $2 billion of this cash on suspension and termination prices associated to frame wall contracts.
  • On January 20, 2021, President Biden instructed his administration to “examine” the border wall development for 60 days after which report again their findings. It has been 180 days because the 60-day examine commenced. As of the drafting of this report, no examine findings have been launched by the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) or the Biden administration.

Building of the southern border wall couldn’t come at a extra essential time. Unlawful immigration and medicines flows stay rampant on the southern border. Immigration authorities apprehended 189,000 unlawful aliens in June—the very best complete for the month in 21 years. Additionally, in June, immigration authorities witnessed a 33 p.c improve in each fentanyl and methamphetamine and a virtually 40 p.c improve in heroin seizures since February.

Regardless of these startling figures and the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) calling the border wall “a essential element in gaining operational management of the border,” not even a yr in the past, the Biden administration has elected to toss out taxpayer cash and jeopardize public security resulting from strain from open borders advocates.