{"id":2005929,"date":"2023-08-19T17:08:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-19T21:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-auctioning-off-unused-border-wall-parts\/"},"modified":"2023-08-19T17:11:32","modified_gmt":"2023-08-19T21:11:32","slug":"biden-administration-auctioning-off-unused-border-wall-parts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-administration-auctioning-off-unused-border-wall-parts\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden admin selling surplus border wall parts."},"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\">14<\/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%2Fbiden-administration-auctioning-off-unused-border-wall-parts%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=2005929&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--><div class=\"entry-content\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">(Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON\/AFP\u200d via\u2063 Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h2>OAN\u2019s <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/tag\/roy-francis\/\" target=\"_blank\">Roy Francis<\/a><br \/>1:58\u2063 PM \u200d\u2013 Saturday, August 19, 2023<\/h2>\n<p>The\u2062 Biden administration has been\u200d selling away parts that were made and intended\u200b to be\u2062 used to extend the southern border wall.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1\" style=\"min-width: 320px; min-height: 50px;  text-align: center;\">  \t<script>  \t\tgoogletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('div-gpt-ad-1663871513696-art-1'); });  \t<\/script>  <\/div>\n<div class=\"ad-slot__ad-label\">Advertisement<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>According to The New York \u2062Post, the \u2063unused\u200d parts of the border wall that the Biden administration has\u200d been quietly auctioning off are worth millions of dollars. Since April, GovPlanet, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-quietly-auctioning-off-parts-of-unused-border-wall-report\/\" title=\"Biden administration discreetly selling sections of unused border wall: Report\">online auction house<\/a> which specializes in military surplus has sold over 80 lots of \u2062\u201csquare structural tubes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The parts that have been sold were intended\u200b to be used \u200cas vertical bollards in the border wall along\u2062 the \u2064southern border. So far, the auction\u2062 house has brought in around $2 million from the parts \u200dthat have been sold.<\/p>\n<p>The \u200bmove \u2063by the \u200cBiden administration comes as the Senate passed a Republican-sponsored bill as \u200dpart\u200c of its \u2064annual defense appropriation \u2063package which is aimed at forcing the president to stem the worsening\u2063 migrant crisis at the southern border.<\/p>\n<p>The <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/1498?s=1&#038;r=50\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.congress.gov\/bill\/118th-congress\/senate-bill\/1498?s=1&#038;r=50\" target=\"_blank\">Finish It Act<\/a> would force \u200dthe administration to extend the \u2062border wall, or send the unused material to border states, such as Texas, so they can put them\u200b to\u2062 use along their \u200csouthern borders.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans\u2062 have\u200b claimed that since\u200c President Joe Biden took office, around $300 million worth of taxpayer-funded wall parts have \u200cbeen left unused.<\/p>\n<p>The\u2062 bill\u2019s sponsor, Senator Roger Wicker \u2064(R-Miss.) denounced the decision by the administration to auction the parts away\u2062 labelling it as \u201coutrageous, behind-the-scenes maneuvering.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cThis sale is a wasteful and ludicrous decision\u200b by the Biden administration that only \u2064serves as further proof they \u200dhave no shame,\u201d Wicker told\u2063 The New York\u200b Post.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The GovPlanet website reportedly increased its sales efforts in\u2062 May \u200bwhen the bill\u2062 was first introduced, and again\u200d just\u2064 days after the bill passed on a bipartisan vote.<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous source\u2062 from\u200c the auction website \u2064told the Daily Upside, a financial newsletter, that they are \u200cunder instruction to\u2064 not speak on the issue.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cWe \u2064are legally \u2063not allowed to mention these are the border \u2064wall materials, or we \u2064could lose \u200cour jobs,\u201d the source told the financial newsletter.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In \u200d2021, the Biden administration was criticized for spending around $2 billion on storage costs and termination fees as he\u200c tried to cancel the contracts for the border wall that were \u2064agreed to under President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump had \u200cspent\u200c around $15 billion\u200b during his presidency\u2063 to install\u200d a total\u200d of\u200d around 700 miles of \u2064border wall after \u200che \u2062promised to build \u201can impenetrable, physical, tall, powerful, beautiful\u2064 southern border wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Biden\u2019s first day in office he had \u200bcancelled the \u200cproject calling it \u201ca\u200c waste\u2064 of money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the \u2062border \u2063wall was cancelled, illegal \u2062immigrant surged across the\u200c open border. U.S. Customs and Border Protection \u2062documented around 1.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dereliction-of-duty-desantis-blasts-biden-for-ending-title-42-program-that-helped-block-illegal-immigration\/\" title=\"\u2018Dereliction Of Duty\u2019: DeSantis Blasts Biden For Ending Title 42 Program That Helped Block Illegal Immigration\">7 million migrant encounters<\/a> along \u200bthe southern\u2063 border in \u200dfiscal year 2021 and around 2.4 million in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>All the proceeds that GovPlanet receives from \u200bauctioning off the border wall parts will be heading back towards the Pentagon\u2019s budget.<\/p>\n<p>Stay informed! Receive breaking news blasts directly to your inbox for free. 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