Govplanet agrees to return the components of the border wall to the federal government

First on Fox: The world’s auction house which listed unused components of the border wall of President Donald Trump under the Biden administration told Fox News Digital on Friday that he planned to coordinate with the Trump administration to return some of the documents to the federal government.

In January 2021, President Joe Biden sparked the chain of events which would finally lead to the sale of unstruized border wall components and tools.

“Like each nation, the United States has the right and the obligation to guarantee its borders and to protect its people against threats. But the construction of a massive wall which extends over the entire southern border is not a serious political solution,” said Biden in an executive decree that has put the construction.

Until Friday, the ultimate fate of the materials of the unused border wall – originally estimated at $ 260 million and $ 350 million – remained widely clear. A controversial legal battle in Texas last December led to a 30 -day freeze on the auctions, but Little has occurred publicly since.

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In a statement to Fox News Digital, Govplanet – an auction compensation house for the public sector and the surplus of the government – announced on Friday that they had concluded a breakthrough agreement with the Trump administration.

“Govplanet has concluded an agreement, working with the border Tsar office, to return border wall materials which were previously considered to be an excess and from the federal government to Govplanet via existing contracts,” said the company, a subsidiary of a global, based on British Columbia, based in British Columbia Global Brods-RB.

“A third -party company that has been contracted for the construction of the border wall will receive materials over the next 90 days,” added Govplanet.

Govplanet officials said they were delighted to work with the administration to return the materials “at a cost” to the federal government and “protect the millions of dollars that US taxpayers had already invested in this initiative”.

“We speed up the transfer of these documents to support the border protection plans of the administration. We appreciate our long -standing partnership with the American government and we are impatient to continue supporting American federal agencies.”

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Asked about the complaint of the auction house, an official of the White House told Fox News Digital that the Trump administration was “grateful to all third parties who wish to help keep American borders safe”.

After the order of Biden, the construction of frost, which finally led to old auctions, meaning. Deb Fischer, R-Neb., And Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, said that taxpayers’ money was spent by the Pentagon to keep the materials as they languished in the desert of the New Mexico.

An outing in 2023 of Fischer cited a figure of $ 130,000 per day for the storage and safety of new-mexic and Arizona panels.

A provision in the annual law on the authorization of the National Defense 2024 (NDAA) forced the Pentagon to submit a transfer or sale of documents.

About 60% of the components of the border wall were transferred to the southwest states such as Texas and California as well as American customs and border protection.

Lieutenant-Governor of Texas, Dan Patrick, told Fox News at the time that Texas had bought around $ 12 million during an auction.

Tens of thousands of terminals, panels and components, including the structural tubes, were then auction On Govplanet.

Dozens of many materials have been registered at auction by August 2023, according to the New York Post. The paper cited a pay day of $ 154,200 for 729 “hollow beams”, in an example.

Screen catches on the ABC-15 Phoenix website have shown 33-foot wall panels per 8 feet sold for $ 1 each in series of five.

Ernst castigated the administration on the news, saying that the documents purchased with hard -won taxpayers were sold for “cents on the dollar”.

At that time, a total of $ 498,000 had been paid For global materials, according to Newsweek. The point of sale has cited the US Army Corps of Engineers to confirm that the tools were marketed in accordance with federal acquisition regulations.

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But, the path started to cool after this hot summer, while Lieutenant-Governor Patrick informed the Hearst newspapers in December that it was told that new sales would be frozen until the second inauguration of Trump.

The Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham argued before the court that the Biden administration was unaware of previous judicial orders by selling the components, according to the Houston Chronicle.

Govplanet seemed to deselect the articles at that time.

In a decision of December 27, the Federal Judge of Texas Drew Tipton prohibited the sale of wall materials for 30 days, according to to law and crime.

The point of sale added, citing the Attorney General of Texas, Ken Paxton, whom Tipton also asked the Biden administration to explain whether it had violated a prior decision in favor of Texas which required that certain funds be spent for the construction of the border wall.

Texas said that Biden’s auctions had the wall components of buyers at a rate that would have increased by about half a million per day, if it was built as Trump initially planned.

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There seemed to be little movement on sales since the 30 -day moratorium expired in January, until Fox News Digital contacts Govplanet on Friday.

Several reports have indicated that the federal government no longer has the components of the border wall that the Biden administration has set up at auction, and that GovPlanet / RBGLOBAL legally has them.

Art Del Cueto, a head of the Border Patrol Union, told ABC-15 that the title quoted in sales reports could “be roughly used”.

“They could set foot, pick it up and use it,” he said.

“When you have to start with the new administration, want to rebuild it, what are we going to have to do, you will have to use more money funded by taxpayers, which is crazy for me,” added Del Cueto.

Fox News Digital contacted Patrick’s office and the DHS to comment.