Any estimate on a Texas wall comparable to what THE REAL POTUS was going to have built?
“Any estimate on a Texas wall comparable to what THE REAL POTUS was going to have built?”
The Trump Program had about 250-300 miles of barrier programmed in South Texas, to build near continuous barrier from the Gulf of Mexico, to about 50 miles North of the Colombia Laredo Port of Entry (itself North of Laredo City). Mostly everything in Laredo and Southward was funded with direct Congressional appropriations. North of Laredo was diverted Military funding, which will almost certainly be revoked.
Down in the Rio Grande Valley East of McAllen, there would be a lot of the most expensive flood control levee barrier ($20-40 million per mile).
Bottom Line: If the Congressional Appropriations already authorized could be funneled through the State, the existing contracts (about 200, super high priority miles) could largely be completed (but not the 52 mile segment running North from the Colombia Laredo Port of Entry, which is of significantly lower priority).
The State of Texas could potentially “take the blame” politically, from the rabid Left Wing base of the Democrat/Communist Party.
I CANNOT imagine that the state of Texas would fail to build to the design already in-use, unless they enhanced it even more.
To continue construction, but at inferior quality would be a self-inflicted wound, and probably unrecoverable, because there would likely NEVER be funding to tear that crap out and replace it with the better design most recently emplaced.