This month, Townhall covered how the Biden administration is trying to undermine President-elect Donald Trump’s efforts to build a border wall.
According to The Daily Wire, the Biden administration is using its final weeks to haul materials for the border wall away from the southern border and be sold off in a government auction.
Video footage of this operation was obtained by the Wire from a U.S. Customs and Border Patrol agent. In the video, unused sections of border wall can be seen being hauled away in the back of trucks near Tucson, Arizona.
EXCLUSIVE: Weeks before Trump takes office, Biden is racing to auction off unused border wall materials.
— Daily Wire (@realDailyWire) December 12, 2024
Video shows trucks hauling wall materials off the border to a government auction site, where a massive amount of wall is waiting to be sold. pic.twitter.com/ogaQMBHw7R
This week, Trump responded to the Biden administration’s efforts to stop the progress of a border wall.
"What they're doing is really an act, it's almost a criminal act," he said, according to Fox News.
"They know we're going to use it and if we don't have it, we're going to have to rebuild it, and it'll cost double what it cost years ago, and that's hundreds of millions of dollars because you're talking about a lot of, a lot of wall,” he added.
A representative for U.S. Customs and Border Protection told Fox News Digital that construction and management of the border wall is handled by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
An official at the Department of Defense told the outlet that the materials currently being sold through online auctions were already sold off by the federal government earlier this year (via Fox):
The Defense official said the materials no longer belong to the U.S. government, and the Defense Department has no legal authority to recall the material or stop further resale of it.
Jonathan Lines, a Yuma County supervisor, told Fox News Digital that the equipment dealer Iron Planet has been partnering with the federal government to sell the materials over the last three years. He explained that though auctions for the pieces start at $5, they typically end up being sold for between $8,000 and $10,000.
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"They sell it consistently, every week or every other week there are sections of the wall that go up for sale," he explained.
Reportedly, border wall materials were listed by Gov Planet last week at $5 as the minimum opening bid for 20 tons of steel bollards on an online auction site that advertised multiple lots.
"The people that are buying it or trying to buy it are trying to make a deal with us to sell it back at hundreds of times more, hundreds of times more than we paid," Trump said. "Just think about how ridiculous it is, and this is just people that don't want this country to succeed. And this has nothing to do with Democrat or Republican, this has to do with common sense. We won on common sense, and this is maybe one of the most egregious examples I've seen."
"So, I'm asking today, Joe Biden, to please stop selling the wall," he added. "It's something that people can't even believe is happening. So, hopefully, Joe will be able to stop it."
