Doesn’t really make much sense.

out of reordering the material, probably as a grift. The price will be inflated and he will collect the difference between what it costs and what he says it cost. Or, he will claim to reorder it and pocket all of the claimed reordering cost.

But, I still love seeing it sold off at auction now. Any micro jabs that annoy the felon elect and give us something to chuckle over are good, IMO.

This will be sold off for pennies on the dollar & when Trump is back in he'll just buy MORE to start it again.
And we wonder......

It's likely to be purchased by someone who knows that there will be demand for it in just a few weeks.

Sounds like a quick profit for some trump supporter

The government PAID for these items when it executed the original task/delivery orders of the contract(s) for it and with it not being nor expected to be used, they are "surplussing" that unused material to recover some of the cost and clear the site.

The proceeds are returned to the Treasury.

Otherwise that stuff sits out there exposed to the weather causing who knows how much contamination where it is sitting.

The surplus could have been sold years ago... and we know that it isn't going to "sit out there" much longer when the administration that purchased it is coming back with an intent to use it.

This is just a more expensive version of removing the "W" keys from keyboards.

and crap like this -



https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/23/arizona-trumps-border-wall-already-falling-down-after-flash-floods-15135971/

Per the OP article, Biden had new construction (and I expect under a completely different contract/design) implemented.

But more to the point, the LAW required removal of those materials -

Do you not find it odd that they don't tell us what the specific deadline is?

If it's December of 2024 then there was never a story. If it's 2028 - then the timing is suspect

Where did I ever claim to be a lawyer?

I linked to it in my reply - https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/2670/text

Here is one reference in there -

Joe Biden probably didn't have any role in the surplus fencing/wall material being cleaned and delivered to a surplus storage area. As stated in this post.... Congress required it, but Newsweek had to put Joe Biden's name on it.

This is normal surplus activity being made out to be some conspiracy by Biden.

which is what I had in my OP comments.

But anything that causes the GOP to freak out should garner a chuckle, although it causing DUers to freak out is another issue altogether.

In two months. For a helluva profit.

That excess building materials don't just sit there in pristine condition. They deteriorate. Sometimes they deteriorate worse than when used because the finishing materials are never applied.

I know, I've stored metals, wood, concrete materials that I never used thinking I could use them later on. But when the tarps and covers are removed, you find the materials are brittle, rusted, warped, water logged....how water got into the back of the barn, I don't know....and chewed up. Rats and mice can chew through a lot.

How long were those materials staged there? Were they covered and protected from rodents sun, rain, freezing? So, selling it off may be the most practical solution for those materials.

I'm sure Trump understands how building materials need to be used before they deteriorate. He was supposedly in real estate and building. So, he'll understand.

Isn't tearing it down just going to end up costing us twice as much now....? He's definitively going to rebuild it and that's if those red state border areas haven't already started but just not announced it yet.

I never understood all the fuss over the border or the wall 🤷🏻‍♂️

Every civilized country in the world I look up to enforces its borders. Canada, Israel, Poland, Ukraine, and more.

That's my opinion anyhow.

It was stuff that was purchased as part of a contract for construction of part of the border fencing and was never used so, it is being auctioned off as "surplus".

That makes sense. Regardless, I'm saving my energy for a real fight. There will be plenty coming up rest assured.

The border isn't the hill I want to die on. It should be secure like every country's and just because Trump or the GOP says it doesn't mean I need to automatically and vehemently oppose it. Even a broken clock is right at least once per day (twice for civil time). I won't say 6:59 is actually 6:58 just because they say it's 6:59 when it's actually 6:59.

is that the border between the U.S. and Canada is over twice the length of the border between the U.S. and Mexico (~5500 miles vs ~2000 miles), and that tells you what their thought process and agenda is regarding "borders".