Mexico Border Wall

WASHINGTON — Texas Gov. Gregg Abbott said Thursday that his state would build a wall along the border with Mexico and blamed President Joe Biden’s policies for a humanitarian crisis at the southern border. The Republican governor announced the plan to build the barrier at a border security summit he…

Topline The Biden Administration on Friday announced plans for how it will redirect billions of dollars former President Donald Trump diverted from the military’s budget to build sections of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border—another step taken by Biden to dismantle a key pillar of Trump’s legacy and fulfill a…

Federal judges and Democrats have been unraveling several high-profile Trump-era mysteries. A Mueller investigation witness will soon answer lawmakers' questions after a two-year court fight. A memo outlining Bill Barr's reasons for not prosecuting Trump could also be released. See more stories on Insider's business page. Donald Trump left a…

The people of Winchester, Oklahoma, are not happy. Last October, the Muscogee Nation began construction on a 25,000-square-foot meat-processing facility on the tribe’s lands in Okmulgee County. Known as Looped Square Meat Co., the facility is one of three meat-processing plants being built by tribal nations in Oklahoma with funds…

For all the talk of constructing a wall on America’s southern border over the past five years, one of the Trump-era notions less discussed outside the immigration policy world was that of a wall of paper—a near-insurmountable obstacle largely designed by nativist zealot Stephen Miller, built not out of steel…

Most of the nearly $10 billion that the Trump administration diverted from the armed services to build barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border will never be seen again, Pentagon and congressional officials confirmed Friday. That includes some of the money diverted from military construction funds and all the money former President Donald…

Not so long ago, Liz Cheney was being presented as “a new thought leader for the GOP” and even the second coming of Margaret Thatcher. As Donald Trump continued to spread wild lies about the 2020 election, political reporters upheld Cheney as a voice of reason and a beacon around…

In February’s Senate trial to impeach and convict Donald Trump for the crime of inciting an insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, the modern GOP had one last shot at rescuing its long-battered image as a responsible governing party. It might have reclaimed something of its former standing…

Editor’s Note (3/3/21): The shocking recent blackouts in Texas left millions of people without electricity and clean water, caused dozens of deaths and inflicted economic damage estimated at tens of billions of dollars. Blame for the grid’s failure has widely fallen on the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, along with…

Ted Cruz is being lambasted on social media for supporting Donald Trump's border wall after he fled to Mexico in the middle of a humanitarian crisis, with Texas hit by freezing temperatures and continuing blackouts. The senator found himself at the center of a media frenzy on Thursday after photos…