{"id":602505,"date":"2021-07-26T10:36:28","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:36:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=602505"},"modified":"2021-07-26T10:36:32","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:36:32","slug":"gop-senator-blasts-biden-for-halting-wall-construction-paying-contractors-billions-to-babysit-metal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-senator-blasts-biden-for-halting-wall-construction-paying-contractors-billions-to-babysit-metal\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Senator Blasts Biden For Halting Wall Construction: Paying Contractors Billions To \u2018Babysit Metal\u2019"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fgop-senator-blasts-biden-for-halting-wall-construction-paying-contractors-billions-to-babysit-metal%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=602505&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/GettyImages-1231062623.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Republican senator is slamming President Biden for terminating the declaration of a national emergency at the southern border while paying Department of Defense contractors millions of dollars <em>not <\/em>to build the wall, saying Biden \u201cis paying professional construction contractors to babysit metal to the tune of $2 billion and counting.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma GOP senator James Lankford noted in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/lankford-exposes-billions-in-waste-in-biden-border-wall-debacle-demands-answers-from-top-officials\">press release<\/a>, \u201cMore than 180,000 migrants attempted to cross our southern border in June alone. On&nbsp;January 20, President Biden issued&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/01\/27\/2021-01922\/termination-of-emergency-with-respect-to-the-southern-border-of-the-united-states-and-redirection-of\">Presidential Proclamation 10142<\/a>, which terminated the federally declared emergency at the southern border and halted the construction of the congressionally funded border wall, citing the need to \u2018assess\u2019 the wall\u2019s construction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lankford issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/imo\/media\/doc\/GOBM%20Interim%20Report%20on%20Border%20Wall.pdf\">scathing report<\/a> in which it was noted that Biden\u2019s \u201cefforts to suspend or terminate border wall construction have cost taxpayers between $1.837 billion to $2.087 billion since January 20, 2021. This amount continues to increase by <em>at least <\/em>$3 million per day, according to records and data obtained by the Minority Staff of the Government Operations and Border Management (GOBM) Subcommittee of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee (HSGAC).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy the end of the Trump Administration, $10 billion had been transferred to U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) accounts for border wall construction and related projects,\u201d the report noted. \u201cAs of June 2021, the Biden Administration has wasted roughly 20 percent ($2 billion) of that $10 billion on suspension and termination costs related to border wall contracts. This waste of taxpayer resources threatens military readiness and national security.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Biden Administration is paying contractors <em>at least <\/em>$3 million per day to guard steel, concrete, and other materials in the desert,\u201d the report stated. \u201cAt the same time, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has encountered over 1.1 million migrants along the Southwest border this fiscal year \u2013 a 20 year high.This policy decision raises significant concerns about the Biden Administration\u2019s immigration agenda and requires both Congressional oversight and legislative action.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lankford blasted:<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"19\">\n<p><em>It is absolutely absurd that Americans are paying contractors to guard metal gates that President Biden refuses to install because he wants to \u201cstudy\u201d the wall. Stubbornly refusing to spend money approved for the wall is not \u201cexecuting\u201d the law. It\u2019s ignoring the law and ignoring the very real national security concerns posed by illegal entry across our very open southern border. For years I have called out federal waste, but the Biden Administration is literally \u201cgoing for broke\u201d with this nonsense. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Our border patrol agents are doing their best to secure our border, but they need additional barriers, roads, and technology to help keep us safe. Instead, President Biden is paying professional construction contractors to babysit metal to the tune of $2 billion and counting, while at the same time we\u2019ve seen a 20-year high number of migrants crossing our open border.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The press release concluded, \u201cLankford<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lankford.senate.gov\/news\/press-releases\/lankford-wants-answers-on-why-biden-administration-is-handcuffing-ice-from-enforcing-the-law\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has stated<\/a><span class=\"apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span>he plans to hold every nominee for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) until the crisis at the southern border is handled and until the southern border wall is complete.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Republican senator is slamming President Biden for terminating the declaration of a national emergency at the southern border while paying Department of Defense contractors millions of dollars not to &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-602505","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\/602505","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=602505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/602505\/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=602505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=602505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=602505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}