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The Biden administration has agreed to stop selling border wall materials in the wake of a complaint filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Filed earlier this month, the complaint accused the administration of “auctioning off up to half a mile per day of border wall sections for a mere fraction of the original purchase cost,” as noted in a press release.

Paxton argued that the selling off of border wall materials was a violation of an agreement reached in May 2024 “to force the Biden Administration to spend statutorily obligated funds on border wall construction after the federal government attempted to illegally redirect the money.”

“The Biden Administration cannot auction off sections of the border wall,” the Texas AG said in a statement. “If these reports are true, the Biden Administration is violating a federal court order.”

“Texas is going to court to prevent any border security materials from being unlawfully sold and to find out the truth about what the federal government may be doing to subvert border wall construction,” he added.

Flash forward to Friday when Paxton revealed in an updated press release that the Biden administration “confirmed to the court today that it will agree to an order preventing the outgoing administration from disposing of any further border wall materials over the next 30 days.”

That’s just enough time for President-elect Donald Trump to assume office and “use those materials as he sees fit,” Paxton added.

But it gets better.

“Additionally, the court stated that Texas is entitled to documentation proving that the Biden Administration has not violated an injunction secured by Attorney General Paxton in May of 2024 that required the Biden Administration to spend statutorily obligated funds on border wall construction after the federal government attempted to illegally redirect the money,” a press release from Paxton’s office reads.

“If it is shown that the Biden Administration disposed of border wall materials purchased with funds subject to that injunction in violation of a court order—or that the Department of Justice made misrepresentations regarding the border materials that have been auctioned off—this would constitute unethical and sanctionable conduct, and the responsible parties could be held in contempt of court,” it continues.

As previously reported, the Biden administration stopped construction of the border wall the moment President Joe Biden assumed office in January of 2021.

Two years later in 2023, the administration began auctioning off parts on an online auction marketplace, though the story didn’t gain traction until this month when The Daily Wire published bombshell video footage showing “unused sections of the wall being hauled away on the back of flatbed trucks from a section of the border just south of Tucson.”

The video spurred widespread backlash, including from Trump, who filed a lawsuit a couple of days after Paxton filed his complaint.

“Today, President Trump has filed an amicus brief in the Southern District of Texas requesting that a highly respected federal judge immediately stop the Biden Administration’s reported ‘fire sale’ of border wall materials at rock-bottom prices and order an investigation,” Trump campaign spokesperson Steven Cheung said in a statement.

“Any attempt by Biden officials to obstruct President Trump’s plan to build the Border Wall is unlawful, unconstitutional, and possibly criminal, as our brief argues. President Trump will not be deterred from Building the Wall,” he added.

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