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 putting new money toward building a U.S.-Mexico border wall, shifting course after installing only a fraction of the hundreds of miles of potential barrier that Republican Gov. Greg Abbott set out to construct four years ago.

The Texas Legislature cancelled the state's program to build its own border wall as the legislative session came to a close, having spent more than $3 billion to build only about 65 miles of scattered segments.