Biden "'The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn't. They wouldn't...I can't stop that"...

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by Emily Goodin at Daily Mail

DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas quietly issued the wavier on Wednesday
President Joe Biden said he is being forced to build the wall
‘The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t,’ Biden said

President Joe Biden said border walls don’t work and he’s being forced to resume building on Donald Trump’s signature initiative.

Biden said Congress had appropriated the money to build the wall on the country’s Southern border so he had to use the funds that way.

‘The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate, to redirect that money. They didn’t. They wouldn’t.In the meantime, there’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money for what it was appropriated for. I can’t stop that,’ he said.

Asked whether he thought the border wall was effective, he replied: ‘no.’

But his comments don’t match those of his Homeland security secretary who said there was an ‘immediate need’ to build the wall…