The Committee of the National Security Chamber sent the budget recommendations of April 27 which, If approved by Congress, It could finance additional 700 kilometers of border wall, 900 miles of river barriers and 630 miles of secondary walls as part of the budget reconciliation, the president of the bill, Donald Trump, has requested the passage of Congress by Memorial Day.
The Department of Security Homeland (DHS) calls for $ 69 billion in taxpayers’ funds for security needs, whose lion quota is $ 46.5 billion to pay the hundreds of miles of new base walls and-concurred, according to the current DHS wall construction program specifications. The money is expected to finance the construction of walls throughout the southern border -for at least three years following indefinite delivery/amount of contracts of indefinite quantity that could be renewed by 2028.
The rest of the money is expected to charge $ 5 billion for customs and border protection facilities; $ 4.1 billion for 8,000 additional support officers, officers and support staff; $ 2 billion for annual CBP retention annual bonuses and signing incentives; 1.07 billion dollars for non -intrusive inspection technology; $ 2.7 billion for unspecified border surveillance technology; $ 500 million for non -manned aircraft systems; and $ 450 million for Operation Stonegarden, a federal subsidies program administered by the Federal Emergency Management Administration that It provides funding for cooperation and coordination between federal, state, local and tribal police agencies to improve the security of borders.
“We need the resources to continue to do what President Trump has promised the North -American people,” said Kristi Noem, Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem during a House of the Chamber’s Subcommittee.
The current projects of Wall of Frontera are being built near San Diego and in the county of Hidalgo, Texas, Using appropriate funds during Biden Administration. The contractors that offer the new work could be constructions of wall sections in Arizona and New Mexico, where CBP has previously identified the areas that it wants to erect new sections of wall or other execution measures. Texas governor, Greg Abbott (R), also previously used river barriers, as requested by the security passage to the Rio Grande that separated the United States from Mexico. Biden’s administration ordered the floating buoys – essentially acting as networks that prevented no one from crossing the river – was stirred in December 2023.
The application, however, does not include money to buy an existing border wall that Abbott and other Texas officials said they were interested in selling the federal government in the first days of the second Trump administration.
While discussions between the State and the Trump administration are in progress, the National Security Committee did not allocate any funds to acquire the $ 11.5 million Texas wall.
“ This is part of the ongoing discussions with Congressional members to refund Texas for more than $ 11 billion to secure the border and protect the jeans and North -Americans. Governor Abbott recently spoke with members of the Texas Congress delegation on a refund and continues to work with the Congress on details, ” he said in early February with Congress.
