The Government Accountability Office (GAO) launched an investigation over President Biden’s decision to halt the Southern border wall on Tuesday.
$1.9 billion out of the $900 billion stimulus bill passed under the Trump Administration in December was already allocated for the border wall.
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Because Biden halted the construction, the GAO is looking into if his decision, which froze funding, violated Congress’ spending authority.
A manager from the Project on Government Oversight, Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette, told Politico, “The Biden administration has to be really careful about doing stuff like this, because otherwise they’re just going to be doing the exact thing the Trump administration did — just at the other end of the policy spectrum.”