by Charlotte Hazard
Texas GOP Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick says he want to buy border-construction material being auctioned by the Department of Homeland and give it to President-elect Donald Trump.
“Joe Biden is now hauling off the border wall that’s been lying down for years and he wants to auction it off starting at five dollars a piece,” Patrick told Fox News opinion-show host Laura Ingraham on Thursday. “Message to the White House right now: I will bid on all of that wall and we will buy it in Texas and we will give it to Donald Trump.”
Patrick also said he has the authority to spend Texas tax dollars that way.
“I got a billion dollars in my pocket to do it,” he said. “I write the budget with [state] Sen. Joan Huffman. We have the money.”
Border security was a top campaign issue for Trump this year, as it was when he first won the presidency in 2016.
In Trump’s next term, Â he is expected to ramp up border security and perhaps conduct mass deportations and end birthright citizenship.
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Charlotte Hazard is a reporter for Just the News.
