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Creates a new Treasury account to fund construction and upkeep of physical barriers along the U.S. southern international border and directs an immediate transfer of all unobligated amounts remaining from the federal State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (ARPA) into that account. The Department of Homeland Security is directed to use the transferred funds to construct and maintain the border barriers.
The bill redirects existing pandemic-relief funds to build border barriers—improving border security without new appropriations but reducing state and local recovery resources, shifting costs onto taxpayers, and creating local environmental and property impacts.
Border communities will receive expanded physical barriers intended to reduce unauthorized crossings and related local security risks.
Taxpayers and the federal budget avoid a new appropriation because existing federal balances are redirected to fund this national-security infrastructure priority.
State and local governments lose access to remaining Coronavirus relief funds that could have supported public health, schools, or local services.
Taxpayers effectively bear the cost of border-wall construction because pandemic relief dollars are redirected, reducing funds available for local recovery programs.
Communities near the border could face environmental, property, or access impacts from new wall construction and ongoing maintenance.
Introduced January 9, 2025 by John A. Barrasso · Last progress January 9, 2025