Democrats Make $47 Million Vanish

The Senate Armed Forces Committee’s Republican members are demanding an explanation as to why the United States is incurring a daily expense of $130,000, or more than $47 million per year, to preserve and care for unused border wall panels located along the Mexico border.

This astounding $47 million dollars could be spent on something so much better but instead Democrats want to continue to show the American people how much they hate former President Donald Trump by wasting border wall resources.

According to Newsmax, On Wednesday, GOP legislators sent a letter to the Defense Department making their request. They relied on information provided to them by the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in a prior information request.

The Republican senators wrote a letter to Melissa Dalton, the assistant secretary of defense for homeland defense and hemispheric affairs, expressing their concerns. They noted that many of them had visited the southern border and witnessed the consequences of the current administration’s policies. The senators were disturbed to discover that the Department of Defense was compensating private landowners to store border wall components obtained during the Trump Administration, instead of using them to strengthen the southern border.

The Republicans wrote, “At present, over 20,000 border wall sections, otherwise known as bollard panels, lie unused at 20 project sites across southern Arizona and New Mexico. Every day, the Department of Defense pays $130,000 to store, maintain, and secure these materials. Since you were sworn in as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Hemispheric Affairs a year ago, you have allowed the Department to pay over $47 million to store these panels. The Department of Defense should not be incurring these daily charges but should be using these funds to bolster national security.”

“In a highly dangerous security environment for the United States, every dollar Congress authorizes for the Department of Defense should be used effectively. This failing program clearly misses that standard,” They added.

Almost all the Republicans on the committee, including the Texas Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn, and the ranking member, Sen. Roger Wicker of Mississippi, signed the letter.