'Colossal Waste of Money': Texas nears $1 billion in border wall contracts

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The Webb County coalition that opposed Trump’s boondoggle is now scrambling to oppose the state’s expanded construction plans. Texas SouthTexas GregAbbott Trump BorderWall Immigration GovernmentWaste

from the agency’s hired project manager show proposed plans to build several miles along private ranch land in northwestern Webb, and several miles south of Laredo through the small towns of El Cenizo and Rio Bravo.

The Facilities Commission said that this is likely the last contract that will come from the $900 million pot of taxpayers funds state lawmakers initially allocated for Abbott’s wall in 2021, but plenty more money is coming down the pipeline. “Somethin’ tells me the Legislature might do that,” Facilities Commission Chairman Steven Alvis said at the commission’s meeting last week.

The state gave the latest contract to the Sullivan Land Services Company , a construction and disaster response firm owned by a trio of brothers from Galveston. The Sullivan brothers’ outfit has won major government business in Texas over the years, including over $300 million in services provided for the state’s COVID-19 response and Operation Lone Star border mission, state spending records show.

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