DHS Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas is citing an "acute and immediate need" to waive dozens of federal laws in order to build a border wall in south Texas where illegal migration has surged, a sharp contrast to dismissals of the use of such barriers in the early days of the administration.
Appropriated money does not have to be spent. It happens in every single department in the federal government. It's not because Biden has to spend the money. It's because now Democrats all over the country are demanding he do something about the border.