Texas Quietly Defunds Its Border Wall Program

Wednesday, June 18, 2025

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project ...

Posted by reinheitsgebot at 09:30 PM | 24 COMMENTS | permalink

Texans deserve to know where billions in taxpayer dollars are being spent. This week we published new reporting about how after pouring billions into Texas' border wall construction, state lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the infrastructure project.

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-- Texas Tribune (@texastribune.org) Jun 17, 2025 at 5:11 PM

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Didn't Krasnov Fats promise that Mexico was going to pay for the border wall?

#1 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-06-18 01:38 AM

... Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott announced Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers have quietly stopped funding the project, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border. ...

Why did Texas seem to abandon this project?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-18 01:44 AM

More from the cited article ...

... Texas officials suggested the federal government could pick up construction. However, during President Trump's first term, his administration built about one-third of what the state was able to put up in the same amount of time. ....

Wow, can you say, "punt?"

I knew you could.

But why the punt?

Was it a cost/benefit issue for Texas?

#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-18 01:47 AM

So in the end just a lot of yelling and screaming and hate for absolutely nothing at all.

#4 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-18 07:53 AM

So in the end money is much more important than halting that deadly alien invasion.

#5 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-18 07:53 AM

So in the end just more performance art by the GOP to impress the red-voting rubes.

#6 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-18 07:54 AM

Don't get me wrong. I absolutely believe that MAGA hates and fears black and brown people.

But this whole immigration pogrom they began is primarily a way to consolidate power for a dictatorship.

#7 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-18 08:07 AM

A handful of people probably made a s*&^load of money for what amounted to nothing more than political theater.

I love how Texans are so arrogant and conceited but yet are rarely better than Florida Man.

#8 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-18 10:06 AM

this was an obvious grift from the start.

#9 | Posted by johnny_hotsauce at 2025-06-18 01:16 PM

I love how Texans are so arrogant and conceited but yet are rarely better than Florida Man.

#8 | Posted by jpw

Another ignorant illiterate comment from a resident idiot bigot..
. The state of Texas did this because last May there were 62,500 border crossings reported because the Brain dead ------ was allowing rapist. murderers and drug cartel dealers just to walk in..

-. this may the recorded number of Crossings is zero.. Google it Mr spilt f face groomer .

.. in addition Texas continues to fund " operation Lonestar" which was created with the election of the brain dead ------ and continues today to be funded including some of the funds that were voted out ..

..this cut was part of the record reduction of property taxes and some other Cuts because the State of Texas has a constitutional amendment that requires a balanced budget unlike the dumbfx in California and other blue States who waste their money on illegals

--So just stay in your little circle of jerks and keep lying to each other because no place else will anyone take you seriously.... by the way ...why don't you go down and visit the Border in Texas ..I hear thanks too operation Lone Star there's even more razor wire.

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-06-18 04:27 PM

Texas Quietly Defunds Its Border Wall Program

Goes to show. There was never a problem at the border.

The entire fiasco was cooked up by republicans to get morons to vote for them.

Guess what, it worked.

Who knew it was the immigrants who were making your lives worse and not the billionaires looting the nation.

You stupid idiots.

#11 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-06-18 04:32 PM

11 | Posted by ClownShack

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA funny ------..

actually clever...for your remedial
level anyway

--puking out your fake ------t knowing there's no way people with jobs and lives have the time to address every lie and BS that you covered.

#12 | Posted by shrimptacodan at 2025-06-18 05:01 PM

there's no way people with jobs and lives have the time to address every lie and BS that you covered.

#12 | POSTED BY SHRIMPTACODAN

So....No problem for you then.

#13 | Posted by Zed at 2025-06-18 05:06 PM

Shrimpfyck is a --------- slobbering microcephalic chucklefuq.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-06-18 08:33 PM

Shrimpfyck is a --------- slobbering microcephalic chucklefuq.

Ok, I'll give creativity point for that one. :-)

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2025-06-18 09:50 PM

In other words, Hotwheels political theater has closed.

#16 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-06-19 08:46 AM

Shrimpfyck is a --------- slobbering microcephalic chucklefuq.

#14 | Posted by LegallyYourDead

I finally killfiled that stupid pile of s(*&.

His rate of posting picked up way too much and I couldn't look at my screen with his disjointed, semi-literate bulls*&^ taking up so much space.

#17 | Posted by jpw at 2025-06-19 09:13 AM

. The state of Texas did this because last May there were 62,500 border crossings reported because the Brain dead ------ was allowing rapist. murderers and drug cartel dealers just to walk in..

#10 | Posted by shrimptacodan

So they built the a little bit of wall in places people aren't crossing already.

Good job!

#18 | Posted by Sycophant at 2025-06-19 10:23 AM

Zed, were your family members in the Klan in the early and mid 20th century?

#19 | Posted by Bluewaffles at 2025-06-19 01:02 PM

No longer necessary as the federal government is finally doing their duty under the Trump Administration.

#20 | Posted by MSgt at 2025-06-19 02:21 PM

... Texas Quietly Defunds Its Border Wall Program ...

Why so quiet about it?

#21 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-19 11:09 PM

7nbsp

@#20 ... No longer necessary as the federal government is finally doing their duty ...

... and how was the Federal government not doing its legal (emphasis upon legal) duty previously?

#22 | Posted by LampLighter at 2025-06-19 11:11 PM

Oh please... It's Mexico's fault for not paying for it.

#23 | Posted by RightisTrite at 2025-06-20 04:57 PM

#23

That's SO obviously true!

I don' buhlieve he ever even asked Mexico; he needed immigrants as his scapegoat, his "Other" for the people to fear.

So he could win an election with less than half the votes... I mean, scapegoating blacks is SO 1950's! These days you have to make the immigrants the Evil members of society instead.

Werks like a charm, too. Well.... until you are too incompetent to make it really work as you are firing your Cabinet members and top military and defense picks.

Here's a Fun Fact:

immigrants are less likely to commit crimes than are US citizens

AI Overview
Studies consistently show that immigrants, including undocumented immigrants, are less likely to commit crimes than U.S.-born citizens.

This has been demonstrated through various research efforts, including analyses of national data and a unique dataset from Texas, the only state that tracks criminal arrests and convictions by immigration status.

www.google.com

As has been noted around here for years now and ignored by Cultists .

#24 | Posted by Corky at 2025-06-20 05:23 PM

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