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Townhall Media/Julio Rosas Joe Biden signed an executive order during his first day in office that put a halt to new border wall construction. He froze the money for border wall construction projects and terminated Trump’s national emergency declaration on the southern border. Steps are being taken now to further move the process along. The Department of Defense announced Friday that the Biden administration has canceled further construction of the wall on the southern border. The photo abov...

© MPR News/Getty Images/KJN Biden seen hypothetically at the wall he has never visited. President Biden is canceling projects to build a wall along the southern border using diverted defense funds and will use some funding to counter environmental damage from the walls construction. Then-President Trump had diverted billions in defense and military construction funds toward building the wall, using emergency powers after Congress refused to fully fund the project directly. A Biden administrati...

ADVERTISEMENT Congressional Republicans argue Biden’s actions were illegal, given that Congress appropriated $1.4 billion for the wall in December, and have led to this year’s surge in border crossings. “The president’s decision to withhold funding on the border wall along with other actions his administration has taken have fueled a national security and humanitarian crisis at the southern border,” Rep. Jason Smith Immigration has been one of Biden’s biggest political vulnerabilit...

Biden halts Trumps military-funded border wall projects ANI | Updated: May 01, 2021 14:27 IST Washington [US], May 1 (ANI): US President Joe Biden is cancelling projects to build a wall along the southern border using diverted defence funds and will use some funding to counter environmental damage from the walls construction. Then-President Donald Trump had diverted billions in defence and military construction funds toward building the wall, using emergenc...

"Consistent with the President’s Proclamation terminating the redirection of funds for border wall, no more money will be diverted from other purposes to building a border wall," a Biden administration official said Friday. "Today, the Department of Defense will begin cancelling all wall projects using the diverted funds, and will take steps to return remaining unobligated military construction funds to their appropriated purpose as permitted by law." ADVERTISEMENT A Defense Department spokes...

© U.S. Army Happy Friday and welcome to Overnight Defense. Im Ellen Mitchell, and heres your nightly guide to the latest developments at the Pentagon, on Capitol Hill and beyond. CLICK HERE to subscribe to the newsletter. THE TOPLINE: A report on last year’s slaying of Spc. Vanessa Guillén confirmed that she was being sexually harassed before her death at Fort Hood, Texas, but not by the man suspected of killing her, according to Army documents released Friday. Army investigators found that...

Dive Brief: In a $1.6 trillion discretionary funding request sent to the U.S. Senates Committee on Appropriations on Friday, President Joe Bidens administration did not ask for border wall construction funds and proposed that unobligated, prior-year funding set aside for wall construction be canceled. The president will submit his full budget request for 2022 in the coming months. Even though the administration did not request money for border wall construction, the funding it proposed does i...

“It’s not a single answer to a single question. There are different projects that the chief of the Border Patrol has presented and the acting commissioner of CBP presented to me,” the secretary said. “The president has communicated quite clearly his decision that the emergency that triggered the devotion of DOD funds to the construction of the border wall is ended. But that leaves room to make decisions as the administration, as part of the administration, in particular areas of the wal...