Biden Says He Tried to Stop Plan to Add to Trump Border Wall (1)

President Joe Biden said he sought to redirect funds to build a border wall but was unsuccessful — as his administration announced plans to add roughly 17 miles of barriers along the Rio Grande in Texas.

“The money was appropriated for the border wall. I tried to get them to reappropriate it, to redirect that money,” Biden said Thursday at the White House. “They didn’t. They wouldn’t.”

WATCH: President Joe Biden says he tried to get money for the border wall redirected, but couldn’t.

Source: Bloomberg

Biden suggested the administration’s hands were tied and when asked if he believed the border wall worked responded “no.”

“There’s nothing under the law other than they have to use the money ...