Billions could be returned to DOD following Biden's 60-day border wall review

By Tony Bertuca / January 21, 2021 at 3:16 PM
The Defense Department has only obligated around 40% of the $3.6 billion in military construction funds former President Trump seized to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, according to a government document, raising questions about how the new Biden administration, which has halted the wall project, could return the money to the Pentagon. "Like every nation, the United States has a right and a duty to secure its borders and protect its people against threats," President Biden wrote in...

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