Judge Halts Biden from Diverting $1.4B in Border Barrier Funds – By Karen Townsend (Hot Air) / March 15, 2024
President Biden suffered a setback last week when a district judge issued a temporary injunction to stop him from redirecting $1.4B that Congress allocated for a barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border.
U.S. District Judge Drew Tipton, a Trump appointee, temporarily halted the funds in question – money Congress allocated in 2020 and 2021 – to help stop the flow of people illegally crossing the southern border. Judge Tipton wrote that the Biden administration’s “spending decisions run afoul” of administrative law. He ruled against the Biden administration’s argument that it can decide how to spend that money.
Included in the judge’s decision was a requirement that Texas must prove that the funds aren’t being spent on additional border walls. The barriers are meant to result in “fewer illegal aliens entering the country.” On that issue, the judge wrote that “Texas has done so.”
