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Estimates in 2025 reporting place the cost to “finish the wall” in the tens of billions: congressional and administration proposals center on roughly $25 billion (WALL Act and similar proposals) up to...
Federal spending directly on border wall construction from federal sources spans multiple pots: Congress appropriated targeted DHS wall funds (e.g., $1.375 billion for FY2021) and the Trump administra...
, the failure to finish remaining border-wall sections stems from a mix of , litigation over use of federal money and environmental waivers, land-acquisition bottlenecks, and administrative contractin...
The United States has not uniformly "de‑regulated" PFAS; rather, federal policy has shifted from an expansion of enforceable national limits under the Biden EPA in 2024 to a narrower, contested approa...
The short answer: the Trump administration, through decisions by the Environmental Protection Agency, allowed continued use and in some cases approved new registrations of controversial pesticides for...
Congress and the Biden and Trump administrations shifted how earlier border-wall appropriations were used, paused, or reprogrammed between FY2018–FY2025; as of January 8, 2024 DHS had obligations rema...
Congress and later administrations appropriated multiple, often small, tranches for border barriers from FY2017 through FY2021 and Congress passed a very large, new border‑barrier appropriation in 202...
Legal fights over environmental reviews and easements, state-federal funding disputes, and use of statutory waiver authority slowed or complicated border barrier work through 2025; DHS waivers in Apri...
Federal rollbacks of protected-area and species safeguards under the Trump administration removed or narrowed habitat protections across millions of acres and rewrote key Endangered Species Act (ESA) ...
Major scientific and public‑health organizations and advocacy groups have publicly criticized the Trump administration’s recent PFAS policies — including withdrawals or rollbacks of drinking‑water lim...