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Drudge Retort: The Other Side of the News
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, leaving only scattered segments covering a small fraction of the border. That decision, made in the waning hours of this year's legislative session, leaves the future of the state wall unclear. Just 8% of the 805 miles the state identified for construction is complete, which has cost taxpayers more than $3 billion to date. The Texas Tribune reported last year that the wall is full of gaps that migrants and smugglers can easily walk around and mostly concentrated on sprawling ranches in rural areas, where illegal border crossings are less likely to occur.

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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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

... 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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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 | Reply | Newsworthy 1

this was an obvious grift from the start.

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

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 retard 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 retard 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 | Reply

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 | Reply

11 | Posted by ClownShack

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA funny schitt..

actually clever...for your remedial
level anyway

--puking out your fake schittt 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 | Reply

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 | Reply

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