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Republican lawmaker introduces bill to continue border wall construction

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U.S. Rep. Clay Higgins, Republican from Louisiana and ranking member of the House Homeland Security Subcommittee on Border Security, announced he is introducing the Finish the Wall Act, which would force President Joe Biden's administration to restart construction of the border wall between the United States and Mexico.
Among other things, the act would see the resumption of border wall construction within 24 hours of its enactment; prevent the Department of Homeland Security from canceling border wall construction contracts; and require that the DHS spend all funds appropriated or obligated to border wall construction since 2017.
The bill, according to Higgins' press release, has more than 60 co-sponsors and is one of House Republicans' "five pillars" related to immigration at the southern border. Higgins said that by stopping work on the border wall, the Biden administration has "created large security gaps, ended thousands of construction jobs, violated signed contracts and left behind huge stockpiles of high-quality steel stacked on private land and unused."

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Border wall gets no new funds in Biden's budget

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In a $1.6 trillion discretionary funding request sent to the U.S. Senate's Committee on Appropriations on Friday, President Joe Biden's 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 include $1.2 billion for other types of border infrastructure like modernization of land ports of entry and new border security technology.
The funding request seems to contradict media reports that the Biden administration might be planning to resume a program of wall construction. During the 2020 campaign, Biden said his administration would not "build another foot of wall," but the administration has not yet announced how it will proceed with wall contracts in progress.

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