With only 8% built, Texas quietly defunds state border wall program

[Javaman]

no joy in griftville today LOL

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https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/with-only-8-built-texas-quietly-defunds-state-border-wall-program/

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border.

That decision, made in the waning hours of this year’s legislative session, leaves the future of the state wall unclear. Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date. The Texas Tribune reported last year that the wall is full of gaps that migrants and smugglers can easily walk around and mostly concentrated on sprawling ranches in rural areas, where illegal border crossings are less likely to occur.

State leaders suggested the federal government could pick up the effort. However, during President Donald Trump’s first term, when wall building was his top priority, his administration completed just 21 miles in Texas — about a third of what the state was able to build over the past four years.

The Tribune reported last year that the state’s wall program would take around 30 years and more than $20 billion to complete.

In early June, lawmakers finalized the state budget, approving $3.4 billion for ongoing border security efforts.

more at link....

[Vinca]

1. That must be sacrilege to the MAGA people. Not that they'll ever hear about it.

[newdeal2]

2. Of course. When a Republican is in office, there's no border issue or caravans

They can't complete the wall now because they need something to attack future Dems over.

[Brainfodder]

3. Has he been called out for shutting down the same lawsuit style he used to get rich lately? Asking for a friend...

If he is angry, we've heard there is a long line of folks happy to STEP OUTSIDE and record his head being used as a punching bag for hours on end?
Rumors...

[creon]

4. it was a potemkin village

putting on a show

[riversedge]

5. State Sen. Joan Huffman, the state's lead budget writer, confirmed...that none of that money.. will build the Wall

............In early June, lawmakers finalized the state budget, approving $3.4 billion for ongoing border security efforts.

State Sen. Joan Huffman, the state’s lead budget writer, confirmed to The Texas Tribune on Thursday that none of that money will go toward the wall. Instead, the funds will flow largely to the Department of Public Safety and Texas National Guard, the agencies tasked with

[surfered]

6. Waste and abuse...

[JT45242]

7. So the donors are in the black at 60 ish miles

The megadonors got 3 billion minus Paxton and Abbott kickbacks.

Pretty sweet deal if you were buying politicians at the state level.