The Trump administration has awarded its first border wall contract of the president’s second term.
The more than $70 million contract is with California-based Granite Construction Co., according to a press release from U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
The company will build about 7 miles of border wall in eastern Texas, near the McAllen border crossing. CBP said the Department of Homeland Security is working to implement Trump’s executive orders that direct the agency to quote “construct physical barriers to ensure complete operational control of the southern border.”
Trump’s DHS Secretary Kristi Noem promoted the project in a social media video from a portion of the border wall in Arizona. She said that construction on the new Texas portion of the wall officially began on Sunday.
In 2021, President Joe Biden froze funding for Trump’s border wall program when he took office.
