President Joe Biden walks along the U.S.-Mexico border in El Paso, Texas, Sunday, Jan. 8, 2023. ** FILE **has not broken the law by slow-walking construction of the border wall, but did say he has left hundreds of millions of dollars still unspent.has said he doesn’t want to build more wall, his actions have belied that and he is moving ahead with construction of some wall-based projects, even if it is too slow for Republicans’ tastes.
He completed more than 450 miles of fencing, though he lagged much further behind in the rest of the wall system — roads, lighting and sensors — that he had planned. He left office with money to finish out those miles and erect more than 250 more miles.canceled the emergency powers and returned unspent Pentagon money. He tried to get Congress to cancel the rest of the unspent wall money that lawmakers had allocated but those entreaties were rebuffed.
“Therefore, we find these circumstances reflect a programmatic delay, and that DHS did not intend to withhold those amounts from obligation,” Ms. Perez wrote.said the law gives the administration until Sept. 30, 2025, to commit the funds and Homeland Security told the auditors it does plan to do so.
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