Texas lawmakers quietly stopped funding the state construction of a border wall between the United States and Mexico just four years after Gov. Greg Abbott (R-TX) signed off on the project. In the final hours of this year’s legislative session,

Andrew Mahaleris, a senior aide to Governor Greg Abbott, said efforts to secure the border have enabled the state to make adjustments.

Four years after Gov. Greg Abbott said Texas would be the first state to build its own border wall, lawmakers quietly stopped funding the project.