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,

According to the Texas Tribune, the decision to end Texas' border wall funding was made in the last few hours of the legislative session. During "Operation Lone Star," Texas spent around $3 billion to build more than 64 miles of barriers along our southern border with Mexico.

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.