A judge’s ruling is the latest development in an ongoing border enforcement battle between Texas and the president.
Sign up for The BriefThe Biden administration is temporarily barred from redirecting $1.4 billion that Congress allocated for a barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Tipton, who was appointed by Trump, wrote that the Biden administration’s “spending decisions run afoul” of administrative law, rejecting the federal government’s argument that it has discretion in how to spend the money. “Biden acted completely improperly by refusing to spend the money that Congress appropriated for border wall construction, and even attempting to redirect those funds,” stateIn 2021, George P. Bush, then-commissioner of the Texas General Land Office, and Paxton sued the Biden administration after the president directed to pause construction of a border wall. The cases were combined and a state district judge originally dismissed the lawsuit.
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