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.

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,

Texas has stopped providing new funding toward building a U.S.-Mexico border wall after lawmakers quietly approved a new budget that does not include funding for the project.