Judge Who Already Blocked $2.5 Billion in Border Wall Funding, Asked to Weigh in on Additional $3.6 Billion Chunk

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U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. said during oral argument on dueling motions for summary judgment in the cases that “Congress has already expressed judgment as to the relative merit of this project” when it passed a budget last year that appropriated $1.375 billion in spending limited to barriers in the Rio Grande Valley border sector in Southern Texas.