Joni Ernst: U.S. taxpayers spending billions on border wall not being built
Ernst said $3 million are being wasted daily on the wall
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By Madeleine Hubbard
Updated: May 24, 2022 - 8:43pm
United States taxpayers are wasting billions of dollars paying contractors to watch over unused materials meant for former President Donald Trump's border wall after President Joe Biden canceled construction on his first day in office, Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) said on Tuesday.
While President Biden called the border wall a "waste of money," Ernst said, "Ironically his decision to not build the wall is the real waste of money."
She noted, "Since pulling the plug on the project, the Biden administration has continued paying contractors upwards of $3 million every single day to watch over the unused materials lying in the desert."
Nearly $1 million worth of unused steel for the wall in Texas was stolen in what seems to have been an inside job, Ernst added.
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