‘We Paid For It’: GOP Senator, Fox News Host Demand Biden Restart Border Wall Construction – By Benjamin Fearnow (Newsweek) / Mar 20 2021
Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott joined Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on his radio show Friday when the two claimed President Joe Biden is personally creating a border crisis by halting construction on the wall which borders Mexico.
© Screenshot: YouTube | Fox News Florida GOP Senator Rick Scott joined Fox News host Brian Kilmeade on his radio show Friday where the two claimed President Joe Biden is personally creating a border crisis by halting construction on the wall which borders Mexico.
Scott demanded that Biden “needs to get his rear down” to the U.S. southern border and immediately address an immigration problem “he created.” Scott cited a recent spike in arrivals and said he doubts any sizable number of migrants are being tested for COVID-19. The Florida governor-turned Republican senator agreed with Kilmeade that part of the problem is Biden “not talking to Republican governors” in Texas or Arizona. The Biden administration paused border wall construction in January and has stated that many of former President Donald Trump’s actions are being re-evaluated.
Kilmeade, who co-hosts Fox & Friends on the Fox News Channel, accused Biden of aggressively ceasing all border wall construction started under former President Trump – a particularly inane move, he said, given that U.S. taxpayers already paid for the project. It was not offset by any “indirect” trade pacts as Trump promised. Despite years of Trump campaign claims that Mexico would pay for his $21.6 billion border wall project, Kilmeade inadvertently conceded that American taxpayers are in fact the ones footing the endless crescendo of construction bills.
