Lankford Calls on Committee to Stop Wasting Taxpayer Money Studying Southern Border Wall & Finish It

Senator James Lankford (R-OK) participated in a Senate Homeland Security and Government Affairs Committee Markup Meeting on Tuesday, March 2, 2021. Lankford introduced an amendment to the Homeland Procurement Reform Act, to restart and complete the work on the southern border wall that was halted by the Biden Administration.

"Congress already approved and the American people already paid for the construction of a southern border wall. But instead of completing the work on the wall and technology for our national security, taxpayers are paying Defense contractors as much as $2.1 billion to watch steel slats and gates bake on the ground so no one steals them while President Biden ignores the thousands of migrants illegally entering the US every month. That is wasted American taxpayer money. The Cartels are smuggling humans and drugs across our southern border while the Biden Administration ‘studies’ border wall construction. There is an easy way to prevent people from stealing the border wall materials: install them. It is absurd to pay people to monitor steel beams at the border, rather than paying people to stop illegal crossings at the border."

-Senator James Lankford