New video reveals dozens of stacked columns of steel worth $100 million dollars left to rust after President Biden canceled plans to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
The footage, obtained by drone by Fox News, reveals enough material to build hundreds of miles of border wall going unused in Pharr, Texas. The steel columns have already been paid for by taxpayers.
In July, it was revealed that the Biden administration was wasting $3 million per day to not build the border wall.
The costly per day amount is going to contractors to guard all the materials – like steel and concrete – that are lying around in the desert for the project, according to a report from Republicans for the Senate subcommittee on Government Operations and Border Management under the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee. It also went to paying out contractors when the project were just on pause.
The footage, obtained by drone by Fox News, reveals enough material to build hundreds of miles of border wall going unused in Pharr, Texas
The steel columns have already been paid for by taxpayers
On Day One, Biden vowed he would stop building more of former President Donald Trump's famed border wall, despite appropriations already being sent to the Department of Defense for the project.
Since he took office on January 20, 2021, Biden's suspension efforts have 'cost taxpayers between $1.837 billion to $2.087 billion,' according to the report by Ranking Member James Lankford.
Over the weekend, the Department of Homeland Security canceled the last of the border wall contracts agreed to under President Trump.
WATCH: Fox News¿ @BillFoxLA reports on Joe Biden blocking border wall construction while 100 miles of wall materials is ¿just sitting there going to absolute waste.¿
¿Border agents tell us they really need the wall here.¿ pic.twitter.com/CN4apHpORX
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) October 11, 2021
The decision came amid a record number of migrant crossings at the US-Mexico border. That move came two months after the administration canceled two contracts that spanned about 31 miles on the border in Texas.
In June, the Biden
