by Katelyn Caralle at Daily Mail
Most Republican senators signed onto a letter to the Government Accountability Office accusing Joe Biden of ‘unlawful’ acts in stopping construction of Donald Trump‘s southern border wall on Day One of his presidency.
‘[I]n one of the first official acts of his presidency, Joseph Biden suspended border wall construction and ordered a freeze of funds provided by Congress for that purpose,’ the 40 senators wrote. ‘In the weeks that followed, operational control of our southern border was compromised and a humanitarian and national security crisis has ensued.’
The group, led by Ranking Member of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia, claims the president can not provide a sweeping action to freeze funds that were already appropriated for construction of the wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In the letter, they also allege that Biden signing the executive order stopping construction on January 20 is to blame for recent massive influx in immigration at the southern border and the ensuing overcrowding crisis, which they claim was ‘entirely avoidable.’
‘The President’s actions directly contributed to this unfortunate, yet entirely avoidable, scenario,’ they wrote. ‘They are also a blatant violation of federal law and infringe on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse.’…
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