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Under Trump’s ‘big beautiful bill,� Arizona could recoup $196M Ducey spent to turn shipping containers into a border wall that lasted 5 months

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Former Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey issued an executive order in August 2022 directing officials to build a shipping container wall on federal and tribal land. Sections went up in the Coronado National Forest, in Cochise County, over objections from the federal government that it trespassed on federal land. 

WASHINGTON -- In 2022, Arizona spent $196 million on a border wall built by stacking about 2,200 shipping containers � about half to install it and the rest to take it down five months later.

On Thursday, House Republicans approved $12 billion to reimburse states for border security spending during Joe Biden’s presidency. That move could allow Arizona to recoup some of the money spent on that short-lived barrier installed � and dismantled � by former Gov. Doug Ducey.





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