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This bill establishes the "Southern Border Wall Construction Fund" by redirecting unobligated funds from the Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds to finance the construction and maintenance of physical barriers along the United States' southern border with Mexico. Specifically, the bill creates a new separate account in the U.S. Treasury and mandates that all unused money from the COVID-19 relief funds originally established under sections 602 and 603 of the Social Security Act be immediately transferred to this new Fund. The Secretary of Homeland Security would then be authorized to use these funds exclusively for building and maintaining border wall infrastructure. The legislation, which would be known as the "Build the Wall Act of 2025" if passed, effectively repurposes pandemic recovery funds originally intended to help state and local governments address economic challenges from COVID-19 towards border security infrastructure instead. The bill represents a significant policy shift in how previously allocated federal pandemic relief funding could be redirected for border wall construction purposes.

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https://www.congress.gov/bill/119th-congress/house-bill/816/all-info