Biden order to halt border wall project would save U.S. $2.6 billion, Pentagon estimates show

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Source: Washington Post

The U.S. government would save about $2.6 billion if President-elect Joe Biden halts construction on the border wall project on his first day in office, according to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers estimates reviewed by The Washington Post.

Biden told reporters this summer he would not build “another foot” of the border barriers that became a symbol of the Trump presidency and one of the most expensive federal infrastructure projects in U.S. history. But the financial implications of a decision to stop work — including the costs to the government it will potentially incur — have not been publicly disclosed.

U.S. Army Corps commanders met with members of the Biden transition team last week to discuss the border wall project, Corps spokeswoman Raini Brunson said. She declined to comment on the estimates reviewed by The Post, referring additional questions to the president-elect’s office.

“We cannot speculate on what the final cost estimates for undelivered work would be nor speculate about what actions a White House Administration may or may not take,” Brunson said in a statement. Biden’s transition team did not immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.

Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/stopping-border-wall-save-billions/2020/12/16/fa096958-3fd1-11eb-a402-fba110db3b42_story.html

[Budi]

1. Man, what I could do with an extra 2.6 billion dollars about now.

Biden plays a wise game.

[Irish_Dem]

3. I know, we could all get vaccines and health care?

Maybe feed some hungry children.

[Budi]

4. Lift some homeless up from the streets.

Yes, feed some hungry children

[iluvtennis]

9. and hungry adults and help people with their rent/mortgages until CV-19 under control. nt

[Irish_Dem]

10. Yes. Imagine our congress helping people with food and shelter.

It should be a no brainer.

[safeinOhio]

2. Tear down that wall and

build a bridge with the metal.

[Budi]

5. Wouldn't that be a much better purpose!

🙂

[milestogo]

6. Use it to track down the parents of those caged children and reunite them.

[PSPS]

7. So would a trump order issued now but, you know, the vig, the grift, it must go on.

[Journeyman]

8. Great. Gives us what we'll need to begin the prosecutions . . .

[rickyhall]

11. Little Donnie's gonna be mad...

[CountAllVotes]

12. Take these billions and give them back to the American people!

They need it to buy FOOD with and the like!

[onetexan]

14. exactly my thinking!! Hunger is a national security threat, as Chef Andres said. FEMA must be

deployed to assist with food distribution for the ~26M Americans who are food insecure right now.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

15. Donny's monument to his stupidity