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James Lankford: “That money...will spend on everything else but wall.”

Featuring: James Lankford, Republican | U.S. Senate, Oklahoma

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Lankford Joins NewsNation About VP Harris Flip-Flopping on Border Bill

Published | Video Starts at 04:00

That's the road next to the wall. That's the fiber optics, that's the cameras. That's what it was intended for. They've not been spending it for that. That money. In all likelihood, That money...will spend on everything else but wall. So by the time we get to next year, we could pass this bill, but the border wall funding would probably already been spent by this administration for things not border wall related. (04:00–04:36)

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Asserts that the remaining $650 million in border funding will likely be spent on non-border wall-related projects.

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