Build the Wall Act of 2025

This bill creates a new federal fund to build and maintain physical barriers along the U.S.–Mexico border. It moves all pandemic relief dollars that states and local governments have not yet committed to spend from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds into this new border wall fund right away. The Department of Homeland Security would use the money for construction and upkeep of the barriers .

In practice, this means any remaining, uncommitted COVID relief money held by states, cities, or counties would be swept into the federal border wall account immediately, rather than remaining available for local projects or services .

• Who is affected: State and local governments with uncommitted COVID relief funds; communities along the southern border; the Department of Homeland Security
• What changes: Unused state and local COVID relief dollars are transferred into a new federal fund for building and maintaining border barriers .
• When: The transfer happens immediately once the measure takes effect .