We need to finish President Trump's border wall
Finish President Trump's border wall.
Occurrences
Fund and Complete the Border Wall Act
Evidence
Congress.gov shows H.R. 76 was introduced on 2025-01-03 and is still in Introduced status, with the latest action being referral to the House Subcommittee on Border Security and Enforcement.
CBP says more than 100 miles of new border wall and waterborne barrier are funded and in various stages of planning and construction.
AP reported that, as of mid-June 2026, CBP had erected another 74 miles since Trump returned to office, was building about 6 miles a week, and still aimed to build hundreds more miles; roughly 535 miles of the border would use sensors and towers instead of wall because of terrain.
Public Law 119-21, section 90001, appropriated $46,550,000,000 to CBP through September 30, 2029 for border infrastructure and wall-system expenses, including new or replacement primary, waterborne, and secondary barriers, access roads, cameras, lights, sensors, detection technology, and ground preparation.
The House Clerk records Roll Call 190 on H.R. 1 as passed, 218-214, on July 3, 2025; Rep. Tony Wied, Republican of Wisconsin, is listed as voting Aye.
Congress.gov shows H.R. 1 became Public Law No. 119-21 on July 4, 2025 after House passage, Senate passage, and House agreement to the Senate amendment.
The Houston Chronicle reported that DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin told a House Appropriations hearing that the administration planned only two miles of physical barrier in Big Bend National Park, with the rest handled by smart-fence technology rather than a continuous barrier.
The Guardian reported that DHS had published a Federal Register waiver for Big Bend-area border infrastructure and that the formal proposal included a 17-mile non-contiguous vehicle-barrier system plus roads, utility poles, lighting, and surveillance cameras; CBP said plans near Big Bend were still in planning stages.
Assessments
The promise was to finish President Trump's border wall, which requires completed construction, not merely funding or resumed work. During Wied's current House term, Congress enacted major border-wall infrastructure funding in Public Law 119-21, and Wied voted for the bill, showing direct legislative contribution. CBP and recent reporting indicate construction has resumed and additional miles have been built, but the wall remains unfinished, with more construction and planning still pending and some areas using technology rather than continuous physical barrier. This supports partial delivery in the same term, not full delivery.
The promised outcome was to finish President Trump's border wall. The evidence shows the wall is not finished: CBP describes more than 100 miles as funded and still in planning or construction, and H.R. 76 remains only introduced/referred rather than enacted. That supports partial credit for ongoing federal wall activity and a legislative effort during Wied's current term, but not full delivery because the promised completion has not occurred.