If you're in the market for 30-foot steel, hollow, structural beams, you're in luck.
While millions flood through the southern border and fears grow over potential threats to the homeland, taxpayer-funded border wall supplies sit in the desert for sale at a steep discount.
On the first day Biden took office, the border wall effort that Trump first initiated came to a halt. After paying a whopping $160,000 every month to store 20,822 unused border wall panels, Biden's Department of Defense has been selling wall materials on the auction website GovPlanet, which specializes in military surplus.
An estimated 126 lots of varying quantities have been sold in Red Rock, Arizona, about 100 miles from the Mexico border. The structural tubes have sold for up to $73,250 and add up to millions of dollars in sales.
Currently, four pallets are listed for sale and include up to 162 tubes in the bundle, weighing over 86,000 pounds. The four listings are up for auction on October 18, despite the Biden administration moving forward with plans to construct parts of the border wall.
"By auctioning off these border wall materials that I have worked to put to use, President Biden is leaving our homeland vulnerable and looking the other way as he wastes taxpayer dollars," Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, told Fox News.
This fiscal waste is stunning, especially when the administration's 180-degree pivot is considered. Last week, Biden said walls don't work at the same time his administration waived 26 laws to build additional border barriers in the Rio Grande Valley, as reported by CNN. Construction of the wall will be funded using 2019 appropriations dedicated specifically for physical border barriers.
The administration's shift signals a realization that the situation at the southern border is deteriorating. Since January 20, 2021, at least 2.1 million aliens have been released into the United States, and the Biden administration has failed to remove roughly 99.7% of those illegal aliens, according to a new congressional report.
The issue of federal government waste is not a matter to be taken lightly. It's a call to action, a reminder that we have a civic duty to demand accountability, transparency, and fiscal responsibility from our elected representatives. It's time to turn the tide and make wasteful government spending a relic of the past with Convention of States. Using Article V, the states can force fiscal responsibility onto a system that specializes in waste.
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