Supervisory Border Patrol Agent Joe Romero walks next to new bollard-style U.S.-Mexico border fencing in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, U.S., March 5, 2019.
Credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson

According to an investigation by the Atlantic’s John B. Washington, hundreds of millions of dollars worth of steel purchased by Donald Trump’s administration to build his ill-fated border on the U.S.-Mexico border now sits rusting away in the desert with no concrete plans on what to do with it.

Building the wall was one of the key planks of Trump’s run for the presidency in 2016, with the former president assuring his supporters that he would get Mexico to pay for it.

Instead, the federal government funded the project, with the Trump administration diverting Pentagon money to the project, claiming it was part of making America more secure.

After Trump lost his re-election bid in 2020, the incoming administration of President Joe Biden pulled the plug on the controversial relic of the Trump era, with workers pulled off the job and […]

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