{"id":1490297,"date":"2022-05-24T16:14:44","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490297"},"modified":"2022-05-24T16:14:48","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T20:14:48","slug":"lets-build-it-gop-sen-joni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-transfer-border-wall-materials-to-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lets-build-it-gop-sen-joni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-transfer-border-wall-materials-to-states\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Let\u2019s Build It!\u2019: GOP Sen. Joni Ernst Introduces Bill To Transfer Border Wall Materials To States"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flets-build-it-gop-sen-joni-ernst-introduces-bill-to-transfer-border-wall-materials-to-states%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490297&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst introduced a new bill on Tuesday that would allow border states to obtain unused materials to construct a border wall.<\/p>\n<p>The BUILD IT Act would allow the materials to be used by states like Arizona and Texas to construct their own barriers along the nation\u2019s southern border.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are witnessing a crisis of historic proportions at our Southern border under the Biden administration. President Biden\u2019s refusal to take action at the border has been a disaster, but his decision to cancel border barrier projects that were already underway is\u00a0literally costing taxpayers billions,\u201d\u00a0Ernst said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ernst.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/washingtons-still-billing-taxpayers-for-a-border-wall-so-ernst-says-lets-build-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere\u2019s a simple solution, Mr. President: let\u2019s put these materials to use, let\u2019s end the taxpayer-funded waste, let\u2019s stop the unprecedented flow of illegal migrants, and let\u2019s\u00a0build it!\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Ernst also addressed the new legislation with reporters on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTaxpayers have already paid $350 million for the concrete, steel, and fencing that is now sitting idle. Why not let states who want to build the wall access these unused materials?\u201d Ernst <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2022\/may\/24\/sen-joni-ernst-floats-plan-let-states-build-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">told<\/a> reporters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s right folks, taxpayers are being billed to protect piles of rusting materials,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley also added his support to Ernst\u2019s effort in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.grassley.senate.gov\/news\/news-releases\/grassley-joins-ernst-on-new-bill-allowing-states-to-continue-border-wall-construction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Biden has made a laundry list of irresponsible policy decisions that have led to complete chaos at our southern border, including his decision to halt construction of the border wall. This has not only cost taxpayers safety and security, but it\u2019s also costing them nearly $3 million per day,\u201d\u00a0Grassley said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are a welcoming nation, but a country without a border isn\u2019t a country. Our bill will allow states to take an important step toward fixing this unprecedented border crisis by continuing construction of a border wall,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The BUILD IT Act has the support of the Federation for American Immigration Reform and is also co-sponsored by Sens. Ted Cruz (TX), Rick Scott (FL) Roger Marshall (KS), and Steve Daines (MT).<\/p>\n<p>President Joe Biden signed an executive order on his first day in office to stop construction on the border wall. Since that time, the federal government has reportedly been paying contractors more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/GOBM%20Interim%20Report%20on%20Border%20Wall.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">$3 million per day<\/a> to protect the unused materials, according to data from the Minority Staff of the Government Operations and Border Management.<\/p>\n<p>According to Grassley\u2019s statement, roughly one-quarter of a billion dollars in taxpayer-funded materials are sitting on the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Texas obtained 1,700 panels originally designed for the Trump border wall to use in Republican Gov. Greg Abbott\u2019s effort to \u201csecure the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter Biden halted construction of Trump\u2019s border wall hundreds of unused wall panels were left at construction sites,\u201d Abbott tweeted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas has obtained 1,700 of those unused panels to help build the wall,\u201d he added. \u201cThey had been declared surplus\u2013now they secure the border.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">After Biden halted construction of Trump\u2019s border wall hundreds of unused wall panels were left at construction sites.<\/p>\n<p>Texas has obtained 1,700 of those unused panels to help build the wall.<\/p>\n<p>They had been declared surplus\u2013now they secure the border.<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qWkexB3pP4\">https:\/\/t.co\/qWkexB3pP4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Greg Abbott (@GregAbbott_TX)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iowa Republican Sen. Joni Ernst introduced a new bill on Tuesday that would allow border states to obtain unused materials to construct a border wall. The BUILD IT Act would allow the materials to be used by states like Arizona and Texas to construct their own barriers along the nation\u2019s southern border. \u201cWe are witnessing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":325,"featured_media":1490344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/325"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}