Fmr. Border Patrol Chief: Biden Was Paying $5 Million a Day ‘To Not Build Wall’

BAIER: “Talk about the border wall. What were the instructions after the transition of administrations when it came to the wall?”
SCOTT: “So, presidential proclamation came out and it was a 60-day pause that’s publicly available. We’re supposed to do an in-depth study and then come up with a plan going forward. Border Patrol did its part, everything. That was done within about two weeks. Several briefings later, there really had not been any decisions made. It went well beyond the 60 days. Many of those projects today are just still on hold. So we’re paying contractors, for a while it was almost 5 million a day between DOD and DHS.”
BAIER: “To not?”
SCOTT: “To not build the border wall. There is — “
BAIER: “Wait, wait, wait. 5 million a day to not build the wall?”
SCOTT: “To not build the wall.”
BAIER: “Even though they have all the stuff, they have —“
SCOTT: “There are stacks and stacks of border wall panels. There’s hundreds of miles of fiber-optic cabling. There is hundreds of cameras that were being installed with that, that are just sitting. There is no action being taken.”
BAIER: “So what do they say when the briefing is, ‘Well, this really helps us if we could just plug this in, if we could just finish this thing,’ what do they say?”
SCOTT: “We are not building more wall. There is no conversation. There is no adult dialogue, if you will. It’s just a black and white decision. The administration said we are not doing it, so we are not doing it. That money is just trickling away to those contractors for not doing work each day.”