{"id":1618909,"date":"2022-08-22T12:02:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1618909"},"modified":"2022-08-22T12:02:14","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T16:02:14","slug":"bidens-delaware-beach-home-border-wall-costs-500k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-delaware-beach-home-border-wall-costs-500k\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden&#8217;s Delaware Beach Home Border Wall Costs $500k"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fbidens-delaware-beach-home-border-wall-costs-500k%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=1618909&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>The price tag of a taxpayer-funded project to build a barrier around President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-joe-biden\">Joe Biden<\/a>\u2019s Delaware beach house has grown to nearly $500,000, federal spending records suggest.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2021, the Homeland Security Department paid $456,548 to Delaware-based construction company Turnstone Holdings for the purchase and installation of \u201csecurity fencing\u201d surrounding the president\u2019s Rehoboth Beach property, according to USAspending.gov, an online database operated by the Treasury Department.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/award\/CONT_AWD_70US0921C70090071_7009_-NONE-_-NONE-\">database entry<\/a> shows two additional payments since then. One bill of $6,844 was paid in late November 2021 to cover expenses resulting from extra \u201cgravel pads\u201d and \u201ccrane services.\u201d This was followed by another $26,933 bill in June, described as simply \u201cto add funds to current project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The overall cost of the fence now stands at $490,324. Although the project was originally expected to be completed by the end of 2021, its \u201cpotential end date\u201d has been pushed back to June 6, 2023, marking a delay of more than 18 months.<\/p>\n<p>The exact reason for the setbacks remains unclear. The Epoch Times has reached out to the Homeland Security Department, listed as the main awarding agency and funding office for the contract, for further information.<\/p>\n<p>Amid a record influx of illegal crossings at the U.S.-Mexico border, the costly presidential residence fence has drawn mockery from critics of the president\u2019s border policy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo walls work at Joe Biden\u2019s beach house but not the Southern border?\u201d Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) wrote on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou\u2019re building $500,000 fence around your perimeter, and I don\u2019t regret you for that\u2014you\u2019re the president, you deserve the security,\u201d Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Sears, a Republican, said on Sunday in an interview with Fox News. \u201cBut you can\u2019t have a fence and the rest of us don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPeople at the border need a fence,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>According to data released by the Biden administration, the number of apprehensions at the nation\u2019s southern border is reaching the 2 million benchmark for the first time in history.<\/p>\n<p>In July, Border Patrol reported 181,552 arrests of individuals who tried to illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border, a 5.6 percent drop from the 192,418 reported in June. With just two months before the fiscal year 2022 wraps up, the agency has already made more than 1.81 million arrests, beating fiscal year 2021\u2019s record of 1.66 million.<\/p>\n<p>In the border town of Yuma, Arizona, the state is spending $6 million to fill a quarter-mile gap in the border barrier with shipping containers. Those 8,800-pound, 40-by-9-foot containers will be topped with razor wire once tractor-trailers move them into position.<\/p>\n<p>Tim Roemer, Arizona\u2019s director of Homeland Security, told Phoenix radio station KTAR-FM that his state couldn\u2019t wait any longer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s about time they supported our border state, local law enforcement and to do something about the humanitarian crisis,\u201d Tim <a href=\"https:\/\/ktar.com\/story\/5200748\/arizona-dhs-director-says-state-couldnt-wait-on-shipping-container-wall-at-southern-border\/\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Texas continues to offer illegal immigrants one-way bus tickets to Washington, D.C. and New York City, a move that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott doubled down on following complaints from the two Democrat-run cities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve got to secure our border because the Biden administration is not securing it,\u201d Abbott said Thursday on ABC\u2019s \u201cNightline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason why we began putting people on buses in the first place is because the Biden administration, they were literally dumping migrants off in small little towns of 10 or 25,000 people, and they were completely overwhelmed,\u201d the governor said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"author_wrapper\">\n<div class=\"one_author_block round\">\n<div class=\"top_row\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/author-gq-pan\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Bill Pan is a reporter for The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The price tag of a taxpayer-funded project to build a barrier around President Joe Biden\u2019s Delaware beach house has grown to nearly $500,000, federal spending records suggest.In September 2021, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1618909","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\/1618909","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1618909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1618909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1618909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1618909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1618909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}