Bill Details
S.42 - 119th Congress
Status
Latest action
2025-01-09 - Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced Date
2025-01-09
Policy Area
Immigration
Committees
View committees (1)
Sponsors
Cosponsors
6
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This bill would set up a new Treasury account to pay for building and maintaining physical barriers along the U.S. southern border. It would move any unspent money from the federal coronavirus state and local recovery funds into that account, and the Secretary of Homeland Security would use the money for border wall construction and upkeep.
- Creates a new fund in the U.S. Treasury called the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund.
- Transfers all unobligated, or uncommitted, money from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds into that new fund.
- Directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to use the money to construct and maintain physical barriers along the southern international border.
Official Summaries
Build the Wall Act of 2025
This bill establishes the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund to be used by the Department of Homeland Security to construct and maintain physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border. All unobligated amounts in the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds must be immediately deposited in the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund.
Current Full Text
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 42 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 42
To establish the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund and to transfer
unobligated amounts from the Coronavirus State and local fiscal
recovery funds to such Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers
along the southern border.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
January 9, 2025
Mr. Barrasso (for himself, Mr. Lankford, Ms. Lummis, Mr. Marshall, and
Mr. Risch) introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Finance
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A BILL
To establish the Southern Border Wall Construction Fund and to transfer
unobligated amounts from the Coronavirus State and local fiscal
recovery funds to such Fund to construct and maintain physical barriers
along the southern border.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Build the Wall Act of 2025''.
SEC. 2. SOUTHERN BORDER WALL CONSTRUCTION FUND.
(a) Establishment.--There is established in the general fund of the
Treasury a separate account, which shall be known as the ``Southern
Border Wall Construction Fund'' (referred to in this section as the
``Fund'').
(b) Deposits.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law, there
shall be immediately deposited into the Fund all of the unobligated
amounts in the Coronavirus State and local fiscal recovery funds
established under sections 602 and 603 of the Social Security Act (42
U.S.C. 802 and 803).
(c) Use of Funds.--Amounts in the Fund shall be used by the
Secretary of Homeland Security to construct and maintain physical
barriers along the southern international border of the United States.
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