{"id":1976768,"date":"2023-07-18T21:27:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:27:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-tells-border-rancher-to-bill-biden-for-wall-materials-decaying-on-his-land\/"},"modified":"2023-07-18T21:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-07-19T01:28:05","slug":"congressman-tells-border-rancher-to-bill-biden-for-wall-materials-decaying-on-his-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-tells-border-rancher-to-bill-biden-for-wall-materials-decaying-on-his-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Congressman advises border rancher to invoice President Biden for the deteriorating wall materials on his property."},"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%2Fcongressman-tells-border-rancher-to-bill-biden-for-wall-materials-decaying-on-his-land%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=1976768&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>A \u200bBorder \u200cRancher \u2062Considers\u200b Suing Biden Administration\u200d Over Dumped \u200dWall Materials<\/h2>\n<p>A senior House \u200dRepublican\u200b has suggested\u200d that a\u2064 border \u2064rancher \u2062sue the Biden administration for \u200bhow\u2062 the\u2064 federal\u200d government has\u200d turned his property\u200c into a \u200bdumping ground for\u200d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/defense-department-spends-130000-a-day-on-unused-border-wall-materials-report\/\" title=\"Defense Department Spends 0,000 A Day On Unused Border Wall Materials: Report\">unused border wall materials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During a \u2064House \u200cHomeland\u200d Security Committee subcommittee hearing, Rep.\u2064 Clay \u200dHiggins (R-LA)\u200c advised New Mexico rancher Russell Johnson to send\u2062 the White\u2062 House an invoice for leaving\u2063 a field of steel beams, huge\u2064 piles\u200d of gravel, and other materials in his backyard \u2063for the past 30 \u200cmonths.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;Are you being \u200ccompensated at \u2063all for\u200d the materials left behind, including \u2064steel and anything\u2063 else?&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Higgins, chairman of the \u200dsubcommittee on \u200cborder security\u2062 and \u2064enforcement, \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;No, sir,\u200b not\u200b compensated. And \u2064like \u200dI\u2064 mentioned\u200b in \u2063my testimony, we&#8217;ve never been reached \u200bout to by any government \u2064entity\u200c regarding this,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>\u2064  <\/p>\n<p>Johnson said.\u200c &#8220;It&#8217;s always been\u200b us reaching \u200bout.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;Have \u2064you invoiced the government? I suggest that you do,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p> \u2064 <\/p>\n<p>Higgins \u2063said. &#8220;I&#8217;d \u2063like to \u2063see\u2062 us\u200c discuss \u2063that in appropriations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Johnson gave the\u200c Washington\u200c Examiner an exclusive tour \u200bof his property earlier this\u200d month and shared\u2063 how he\u2063 had been left with \u2063a nearly one-mile gap between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-terminates-military-border-wall-construction-cancels-contracts\/\" title=\"Biden Terminates Military Border Wall Construction, Cancels Contracts\">border wall projects<\/a> in\u2063 his\u200c backyard. The gap is the first opening \u200din 90\u200d miles of 30-foot \u200dwall that runs \u2063from El Paso, Texas, to his \u200dproperty.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of wall panels sit on Johnson&#8217;s land,\u2063 and\u2062 up\u200c to four times \u200bas many \u2064panels sit on\u2062 his neighbor&#8217;s \u200dland.<\/p>\n<p>Massive piles of rock and gravel, up\u200b to three\u2064 times \u200dthe size \u2064of \u2064the \u200c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/congressman-tells-border-rancher-to-bill-biden-for-wall-materials-decaying-on-his-land\/\" title=\"Congressman advises border rancher to invoice President Biden for the deteriorating wall materials on his property.\">large congressional hearing \u200droom<\/a> where the \u200dpanel\u200d met, have been on his land for \u200ctwo \u200cand a\u200c half years.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;So that \u2064America \u2064can get an idea \u2014 this is on \u2063a man&#8217;s private\u2064 land, left\u200d behind\u2064 by the government,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Higgins \u2063said. \u2062&#8221;You&#8217;re not going to\u2063 clear \u200dthat with\u2063 a\u200b shovel.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Although Johnson\u2064 said he has never heard\u200b from Washington, \u2062contractors who come and go \u200don his\u200d property recently have shared that\u2062 the government plans to\u2063 haul off\u200b the leftover materials \u200dand sell them for scrap.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;My\u2062 government \u2063is failing \u2062to protect\u200b this country, and the\u2063 fiscal irresponsibility is \u2062appalling,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>Johnson \u200csaid. \u200d&#8221;I traveled over 2,000\u2062 miles\u200c and left my family\u200b and business\u200c to be here today.\u200d Every \u200dtime I leave, I fear for \u2063what\u2062 my wife \u200dand kids \u200cmay \u200dencounter because of\u2063 our open\u2062 border. \u2063These are fears I shouldn&#8217;t\u2064 have \u200das\u2064 an American\u2062 living on\u200c American soil.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Rep.\u200c Glenn Ivey (D-MD) empathized\u2064 with \u200dJohnson \u200cand said the \u2064public should not\u200b be \u2064caught in the\u2064 government&#8217;s affairs as\u2063 he\u200d has been.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>&#8220;This is \u2063real\u200d people, real businesses \u200bgetting caught in the\u200d crossfire of political disagreement in Washington,\u2064 D.C.,&#8221;<\/h3>\n<p>\u200d  \u2063<\/p>\n<p>Ivey said. &#8220;I don&#8217;t like having\u2063 civilians get \u2064caught in the crossfire. So\u2062 you know, whatever we can do to try and \u200bcorrect this \u200d\u2014 I&#8217;ll \u2064work with whoever wants\u2062 to \u2062try \u200band \u2064make \u200dit happen.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a \u200bhref=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE\u2062 TO\u200d READ MORE \u200dFROM\u2063 THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOP lawmaker urged a border rancher to sue the Biden administration for using his property as a dumping site for unused border wall materials. Rep. Clay Higgins (R-LA) advised rancher Russell Johnson during a House Homeland Security Committee subcommittee hearing, suggesting legal action against the federal government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1976769,"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-1976768","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\/1976768","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=1976768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1976768\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1976769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1976768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1976768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1976768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}