Posted on 12/20/2024 10:32:36 AM PST by Signalman
President-elect Donald Trump filed a blockbuster legal motion on Friday to stop President Joe Biden from making a final move in office that the Republican argued would compromise the country’s safety and lead to another significant influx of illegal immigrants.
Fox News reported on an amicus brief filed by Trump’s lawyers on Friday as part of a lawsuit to stop the Biden-Harris administration’s privatization of the border wall separating the United States from Mexico, joining Republican attorneys general in Texas and Missouri as they challenge whether the president violated a court order in moving to do so. The sale, Trump argued, is “possibly criminal.” The filing adds, “The Court should issue an order directing the Defendants to immediately stop any ongoing sale of border-barrier materials to private parties pending the Court’s review of Defendant’s conduct, and the Court should swiftly conduct a searching examination of the Government’s conduct, by formal discovery if necessary, to examine the Government’s compliance with the law, the Constitution, and the Court’s injunction.”
Since 2023, the Biden administration has been placing parts of the border wall on the auction block, offering private companies the opportunity to construct and maintain critical infrastructure that Trump has promised to buttress after taking office. Previously, President Biden ended all efforts to continue construction on the border wall and only reversed course after the largest ingress of illegal immigrants in the nation’s history, an issue that played a central role in the November election. Biden, the filing states, is “deliberately selling off border-wall materials at a major financial loss to the Government to obstruct the pro-wall policy of Congress and President Trump, such conduct likely constitutes a criminal act, such as a conspiracy to defraud the United States.” It adds, “At the very least, the reported conduct raises troubling concerns of potentially criminal behavior.”
A U.S. Department of Defense official, speaking on background, told Fox that the agency’s hands are tied following the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, which requires it to “submit a plan to use, transfer or donate all remaining wall material purchased with Pentagon funds.” The plan was submitted in March. Texas was among the first states offered initial rights to purchase materials for those sections of the border wall, and that those materials no longer belong to the U.S. government. “Through our reutilization, transfer and donation process, nearly 60% of those materials were transferred to authorized recipients, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection and the states of Texas and California,” the official said. “The remaining 40% was sold to GovPlanet under a competitive sales contract process beginning in June 2024. The material currently being sold through GovPlanet online auctions no longer belongs to the U.S. Government, and DOD has no legal authority to recall the material or stop further resale of material it no longer owns.”
That hasn’t stopped U.S. House Republicans from accusing President Biden of attempting to undermine the incoming Trump-Vance administration by removing the construction of the border wall from his purview. Senator Bill Hagerty (R-TN) has filed legislation to halt the auctions.
Article date: 12/20/2024.
My fingers were moving faster than my brain.
Got it.
First, demented Biden isn’t doing anything, his corrupt leftist activist cronies who run government are.
Thank you.
Biden is going scorched earth. He wants to cause as much destruction as possible to spite Trump, and the good of the country be damned.
Why can’t Elon simply outbid the buyers and sell it back for what he paid?
That it.
Elon is not Santa Claus.
Conservatives need to stop blaming Biden. He is the figure head. We need to start making it clear who the enemy of the US people are. The radical Alt Left extremists in the US Government Bureaucracy are doing what ever they feel like.
Biden bread dead, he just a deflection to take focus from the real target that needs to be cleaned up. The DC Political/Media machine.
Remember, Biden has total immunity for all and any of these official acts.
“Conservatives need to stop blaming Biden. He is the figure head. “
Ditto for Obama.
If he's serious about saving the government money, this will get that done and won't cost him a net dime. Buy it from the government and sell it back when it comes time to build.
Selling the border wall. Just incredible.
The cost of the harm that Biden is intentionally causing should be recovered from him. He should have to replace the border wall material he is selling off to hinder Trump’s border security plans.
So what happened to the plan to USE the material.
Surely there is some legal language in whatever alleged sales agreement there was between the Biden admin and GovPlanet that would void any transfer of materials if done so illegally. Otherwise, wouldn't you have tens of thousands of government employees grabbing everything they could lay their hands on and "selling" it go GovPlanet for further disposition?
Selling the border wall. Just incredible
I was told that the mysterious man buying up much of the wall is a man in Texas who plans on returning it to the Trump Government.
Biden came into office to spite Trump by reversing all Trump’s executive orders and not he is leaving in spite mode to keep him from restoring the successful policies he enacted his first term
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