Chanel Rion – Chief White House Correspondent
UPDATED 1:25 PM PT – Monday, October 31, 2022

The Biden administration this week accused the State of Arizona of trespassing against the federal government for trying to secure its southern border.

An attack prompted by Arizona Governor Doug Ducey building a makeshift border wall using double stacked shipping containers.

Ducey started building these container walls two weeks ago and was able to cover a 3,900 feet of open border near Yuma using 130 stacked shipping containers in just 11 days. That’s just 23 container lengths short of a full mile. The Biden Administration ordered Ducey to dismantle this stretch of container wall but Ducey doubled down and sued the administration stating the container wall was in reaction to “the inaction of the Biden Administration in stopping migrants from entering the state from Mexico.”

Ducey’s continuation of container wall construction is part of his plan to cover a 10-mile section of border using more than 2,700 double stacked containers – each spanning 60 feet.

To all this, the Biden administration accused Arizona of “trespass against the United States.” Jacklyn Gould, regional director for the Bureau of Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Basin said in a letter to Arizona: “That trespass is harming federal lands and resources and impeding Reclamation’s ability to perform its mission.” 

Gould’s office falls under the office of the Interior and she goes on to claim that the closing of this particular stretch of the Southern border falls under the domain of the Department of Homeland Security which has ongoing contracts pending to close these gaps along the southern border. 

Local officials estimate at least 300,000 migrants have illegally crossed this particular stretch of Arizona border this year alone. A problem the Biden administration seems content to ignore – or is too afraid to offer solutions  which in turn has prompted governors from states like Arizona, Texas, and Florida to take matters into their own hands. 

Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) appears to have funneled over $60,000 in campaign funds into childcare, according to a report based on his Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings.

Warnock’s campaign, according to the filings, spent a total of $61,959.40 for items listed as “childcare” — with several payments going directly to specific childcare providers and a number of payments going to an organization called “Bright Start Nanny Service.” Bright Start is listed online as an employment agency that provides full service child care.

While the FEC does allow payments for childcare to come from campaign funds, that usually refers to single payments for specific events — and Warnock appears to be using those funds to pay the bulk of his childcare expenses. Only one of the 33 listed payments — disbursed on September 26, 2022 — was described in the subject line as “childcare expenses (campaign related).” The largest single payment — totaling over $11,000 — was made directly to Warnock himself and was described as “childcare reimbursement.” The others were simply described as “childcare.”

Warnock has previously faced criticism after a report revealed that his church owned a building in a low income housing area, and had moved to evict a number of tenants during the pandemic over back rent amounts as low as $28.55.

“NEW: Records obtained by @FreeBeacon reveal Raphael Warnock’s church, which pays him a $7417 monthly housing allowance, secretly owns a low-income apartment building that tried to evict residents during the pandemic,” The Washington Free Beacon’s Andrew Kerr reported. “One for just $28.55 in late rent.”

Since early 2020, 12 eviction lawsuits have been filed against residents of Columbia Tower at MLK Village, which Warnock's church owns 99% of.

The average rent owed by the residents clocked in at just $125 a month.

The building has received over $15 million in taxpayer funding.

— Andrew Kerr (@AndrewKerrNC) October 11, 2022

“Since early 2020, 12 eviction lawsuits have been filed against residents of Columbia Tower at MLK Village, which Raphael Warnock’s church owns 99% of,” Kerr continued. “The average rent owed by the residents clocked in at just $125 a month. The building has received over $15 million in taxpayer funding.”

Kerr also noted the irony that Warnock’s building would sue to evict tenants who couldn’t pay their back rent — even as Warnock, then a candidate, was arguing on social media for a moratorium on rent and mortgage payments due to the pandemic.

“Unemployment benefits have expired, rent is due today, and many Georgia families are at risk of eviction in the middle of a pandemic. My opponents are supposed to be serving the people in Washington, but they’re clearly only concerned with serving their own interests,” Warnock said in August of 2020.

Unemployment benefits have expired, rent is due today, and many Georgia families are at risk of eviction in the middle of a pandemic.

My opponents are supposed to be serving the people in Washington, but they're clearly only concerned with serving their own interests

— Reverend Raphael Warnock (@ReverendWarnock) August 1, 2020