Biden accused of illegally halting border wall construction

 Washington Examiner:

Two senior Senate Republicans accused President Joe Biden of violating the law by holding up border wall construction that Congress specifically approved under the Trump administration, and they are pushing a government watchdog to force the White House's hand.

Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security, and Vice Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama pushed Wednesday for the Government Accountability Office to intervene on the pot of money that Congress allocated for wall construction at the U.S.-Mexico border. Capito, along with 40 Republican senators, wrote GAO Comptroller Gene Dodaro in March, stating that Biden violated the Impoundment Control Act by suspending all Department of Homeland Security border wall projects without providing legal justification.

“The law does not permit the pause,” the senators wrote in the Wednesday letter on the basis that Biden never told Congress about a plan to cancel the funding amid his review of it or named a reason for delaying the funded projects.

If GAO issues an opinion, it could give Republicans grounds to sue Biden for holding up the projects, all while the southern border faces the highest number of illegal immigration attempts in 21 years.

BIDEN CANCELS REMAINDER OF BORDER WALL PROJECTS FUNDED BY PENTAGON

“Current external factors — namely, the most acute immigration crisis in recent memory — support expediting work on the border wall system, not halting it,” Capito and Shelby wrote. “Each day this impoundment continues, funds lawfully appropriated for border wall construction are cynically under-executed and a reserve is growing."
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 Biden is easily the least intelligent person to ever be elected President.  At best he is an ignorant liberal who feels unbound by the law.  Biden has also emboldened Iran and its allies like Hamas who are trying to kill Israelis as we write this and the Biden administration's response to that is to tell Israel to deescalate.  His response to the hack of a major pipeline is what me worry?

Why Democrats think this is leadership is also a mystery.  We do not have a President with a plan at this point.  To the extent that he has any, those plans are being rejected in many states.


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