{"id":1975336,"date":"2023-07-17T16:10:05","date_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-to-hold-hearing-on-bidens-border-wall-waste-after-washington-examiner-reporting\/"},"modified":"2023-07-17T16:12:42","modified_gmt":"2023-07-17T20:12:42","slug":"congress-to-hold-hearing-on-bidens-border-wall-waste-after-washington-examiner-reporting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-to-hold-hearing-on-bidens-border-wall-waste-after-washington-examiner-reporting\/","title":{"rendered":"Congress to investigate Biden&#8217;s border wall spending following Washington Examiner&#8217;s report."},"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\">22<\/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%2Fcongress-to-hold-hearing-on-bidens-border-wall-waste-after-washington-examiner-reporting%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=1975336&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--><h2>House Republicans \u200bto \u200dHold Congressional\u200d Hearing\u2062 on Biden \u200bAdministration&#8217;s Border Wall Cancellation<\/h2>\n<p>House Republicans \u200dare\u200c taking action \u2063to \u2064investigate the negative\u200c impact of the \u200dBiden administration&#8217;s \u200ccancellation\u2062 of \u200bTrump-era border\u2063 wall\u2063 projects. This\u2063 comes \u200bafter a recent series by\u200c the \u2062Washington\u2062 Examiner revealed the wasteful spending\u200c of\u2062 billions of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>Two subcommittees of the House Homeland Security\u200d Committee\u200c will \u200djoin\u2063 forces for a joint hearing\u2064 titled &#8220;Opening \u200bthe Flood Gates: Biden&#8217;s\u2062 Broken \u200bBorder Barrier.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The hearing \u200bwas prompted by \u200dthe\u2062 Washington \u200cExaminer&#8217;s &#8220;Wall of Waste&#8221;\u200b series, which exposed \u200cthe squandering of federal government \u2064funds\u2063 and the \u2063presence of\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congress-to-hold-hearing-on-bidens-border-wall-waste-after-washington-examiner-reporting\/\" title=\"Congress to investigate Biden's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/radical-cultural-change-coming-to-america\/\" title=\"Radical Cultural Change Coming to America?\">border wall<\/a> spending following Washington Examiner&#8217;s report.&#8221;>rusting border wall materials<\/a>. A\u200d spokesperson\u200b for \u200cthe committee confirmed \u200bthis.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The\u2063 Washington Examiner visited Deming, New \u200dMexico, \u200bwhere\u200b they met with Russell Johnson, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wall-of-waste-biden-ending-trump-wall-leaves-border-rancher-with-field-of-rusting-steel\/\" title=\"Biden's decision to halt Trump's wall leaves border rancher with field of decaying steel.\">fourth-generation cattle rancher<\/a>. Johnson\u2064 expressed how the cancellation of the border wall\u200b on \u2063his property\u200d had negatively impacted\u2063 his family, land, and livestock.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson showed the Washington Examiner piles of steel\u200d sitting near a nearly \u2062mile-long \u2064gap \u200bin the \u200bwall, which had \u200callowed human \u200dand drug \u2064smuggling organizations \u200cto\u200c operate\u200d in\u2062 his\u2063 backyard.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson, who has been invited \u200bto\u2063 testify at the hearing, is on\u2063 his way \u200dto \u2063Washington with a message\u200c for both Democrats and\u200c Republicans. He hopes that President Biden and his\u2063 administration will\u200c recognize the lack of operational control over \u2063the\u200d southern\u2064 border and \u2062work towards a solution.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;Ideally, I would\u2062 like\u2064 to\u2063 see \u2064the\u200b wall finished\u2063 with all the \u200dassociated technology \u2063that goes with \u200dit. In many\u200b areas, all\u200c of \u200cthe\u200d materials \u2063are \u2062still \u2064staged ready for installation,&#8221; Johnson\u2064 wrote in\u2063 a text \u200bmessage to \u2064the Washington \u2063Examiner. \u200c&#8221;I\u200b hope that President Biden \u2064and \u200dhis administration show leadership and acknowledge \u2062that \u2063the United\u200c States does \u200dnot \u2064have \u200boperational control of \u2062our \u2063southern \u200bborder\u2062 under \u2062his current policies.\u2062 This \u2063administration \u200cneeds\u200b to\u200b listen to \u2063people\u200c who live with \u2063and are\u2063 directly \u2062impacted by the situation \u2064on the border to \u200creach\u2062 a \u2063solution.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The \u2063Washington Examiner series\u2063 also\u200c revealed\u200d that\u200b the Biden\u2063 administration\u200c had\u200c agreed \u200bto \u2063fill in \u2062129 gaps \u200bin the\u200b border\u2062 wall, \u200balthough \u2064these projects only \u200bmake up a small \u200dpercentage \u2063of the \u200d300\u200d miles of unbuilt\u200c wall\u200b that had \u200bbeen \u2064funded during \u200bthe Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore,\u2063 the absence \u200bof a\u2063 wall has\u200c led Arizona \u2064and Texas\u200c to \u2064increase\u200d their border security \u2064operations,\u200c resulting in\u2064 significant spending by \u2064state residents. \u200cDemocrats have \u2064accused Governor Greg Abbott of \u2063politicizing the\u2062 issue.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For too long,\u200d the \u2062issues surrounding the\u200b border\u200c and its\u2064 security have been\u200d politicized\u2063 to the point\u200b that neither party has made any\u200c meaningful\u2062 change,&#8221; Johnson stated. &#8220;The safety, security,\u200c and \u200csovereignty \u200cof this nation\u2062 should \u200dnot be a \u2062partisan issue.\u2064 It&#8217;s \u200btime that \u2062America and its citizens\u200c are \u200cput first.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The hearing, scheduled\u200c for\u200c 2\u2062 p.m. EDT on\u200d Tuesday, will\u2063 be conducted by\u2064 the House Homeland Security&#8217;s \u200dSubcommittee on\u2063 Border\u200c Security and \u200bEnforcement, led by\u200b Chairman\u2064 Clay Higgins, and the Subcommittee on Oversight, Investigations, and \u200cAccountability, led \u200dby Chairman Dan Bishop.<\/p>\n<p>Other witnesses \u2063at the\u200b hearing \u200cinclude\u2064 Ntina \u2062Cooper, \u200cCustoms and Border \u2064Protection&#8217;s\u2063 acting \u200cDeputy Executive\u2063 Assistant Commissioner for Enterprise Services; Col. Jason Jefferis,\u2064 Head\u2062 of Contracting Services at the U.S. Army\u2062 Corps \u2063of Engineers; Rebecca \u200bGambler, Director of\u200b Homeland \u200cSecurity\u200b and Justice at the Government \u2062Accountability\u2064 Office; Ron \u2063Vitiello,\u2062 former Border \u2062Patrol Chief;\u2064 Jim De\u200c Sotle,\u2064 interim CEO\u200b of\u2063 LoneStar Pipeline Contractor; \u200cand \u2062Dr. Alexander \u200dTenorio,\u2063 a\u200c neurological \u200bsurgery\u2063 resident \u2062at\u2063 the\u200b University of \u2064California \u2063San\u2063 Diego Health.<\/p>\n<p><a\u2062 href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> to\u200c read more\u2062 from the \u2064Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Republicans to investigate the detrimental impact of Biden administration&#8217;s termination of Trump&#8217;s border wall projects. Following a recent Washington Examiner series revealing the squandering of billions, two subcommittees of the House Homeland Security Committee will conduct a joint hearing titled &#8220;Opening the Flood Gates&#8221; on Tuesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1975338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1975336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975336","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=1975336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1975336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1975338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1975336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1975336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1975336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}