Congressman Palazzo: How much has it cost the Department of Homeland Security to cancel, pause, or otherwise halt construction of physical barriers along the southern border authorized and appropriated by law?

Mayorkas: The cost of discontinuing them is approximately $72 million.

Mayorkas: We're not only dealing with a broken immigration system, we're dealing with a broken immigration system that was dismantled in it's entirety in the prior administration. And so we're rebuilding it.