Texas stops funding US-Mexico border wall after finishing just a fraction of state wall

Published June 18, 2025 12:04pm ET



Texas lawmakers quietly stopped funding the state construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico just four years after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed off on the project. 

In the final hours of this year’s legislative session, the Republican-controlled state legislature stripped the project of its funding, leaving its future unclear. The state has completed just 8%, or 65 miles, of the 805 miles it aimed to construct and has cost Texas taxpayers more than $3 billion, according to the Texas Tribune.

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