President Joe Biden, with help from Congress, has sent more than $66 billion in American taxpayer money to Ukraine since the start of its war with Russia-an allocation of money that could have built a border wall nearly two times across the United States-Mexico border.
Based on the Post's estimate, the Biden administration could have completed nearly two brand new walls across the United States' roughly 1,900-mile-long border with Mexico.
That calculation is based on the amount of money, about $20 million per mile, that former President Donald Trump spent on border wall construction - building nearly 460 miles of wall from January 2017 to January 2021.
The Trump administration had secured about $15 billion, mostly by bypassing Congress, to construct a total of about 740 miles of border wall.
The nation's unfinished border wall, where the majority of the border remains without any physical barrier, has caused states to take on the burden of border security.
In Arizona, former Gov. Doug Ducey had filled in gaps in the border wall with storage containers.
Since Biden began sending tens of billions in aid to Ukraine, millions of illegal aliens have been encountered at the southern border.
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