The One Big Beautiful Bill will provide billions in funding for President Trump complete one of the biggest unfinished projects from his first administration: The wall along the US-Mexico border.
Estimates vary, but there are currently about 700 miles of border wall and fencing along the 2,000-mile border. Trump built about 450 miles of barriers during his first term.
The Big Beautiful Bill will dole out more than $46 billion to complete even more — funding an estimated 700 miles of border wall, according to the White House.
It will also allow the construction of 900 miles of river barriers, 629 miles of secondary fences and barriers and 141 miles of vehicle and pedestrian blocks.
The Trump administration recently jumpstarted construction to “close critical openings in the border wall that were left incomplete due to cancelled contracts during the Biden Administration,” DHS announced last month.
That includes 27 miles of new wall in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, and 17 more miles in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas.
The bill would also bolster Border Patrol personnel, hiring 3,000 new agents and providing $10,000 yearly bonuses, according to the White House.
With the ending of the problematic catch and release policy of the Biden administration and the ushering in of a mass deportation effort, Trump has driven border crossings to historic lows.
In June, illegal crossings hit their lowest levels on record with federal agents encountering 6,070 migrants at the southern border, Trump’s ‘border czar’ Tom Homan wrote on X Tuesday, calling it “the TRUMP EFFECT.”
“That is less than a single day under Biden. As a matter of fact, the total number of encounters is less than half of a single day under Biden on many days. Also, none of the 6,070 were released into the U.S. ZERO,” Homan wrote.
“President Trump has created the most secure border in the history of the nation and the data proves it. We have never seen numbers this low. Never. God bless the men and women of the US Border Patrol and God bless the men and women of ICE,” he added.
The nearly 900-page megabill was approved by the Senate on Tuesday and the final version is currently being debated by the House.
Trump has set a deadline of July 4 for the bill to land on his desk.
