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In a $1.6 trillion discretionary funding request sent to the U.S. Senate s Committee on Appropriations on Friday, President Joe Biden s administration did not ask for border wall construction funds and proposed that unobligated, prior-year funding set aside for wall construction be canceled. The president will submit his full budget request for 2022 in the coming months.
Even though the administration did not request money for border wall construction, the funding it proposed does include $1.2 billion for other types of border infrastructure like modernization of land ports of entry and new border security technology.
The funding request seems to contradict media reports that the Biden administration might be planning to resume a program of wall construction. During the 2020 campaign, Biden said his administration would not build another foot of wall, but the administration has not yet announced how it will proceed with wall contracts in progress.