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Texas will continue to build a US-Mexico border wall with leftover panels — a move that comes despite efforts by President Biden to pull the plug on its construction, Gov. Greg Abbott announced this week.

Abbott said Tuesday that the state had secured the panels to forge ahead with former President Donald Trump’s plans for the barrier.

“After Biden halted construction of Trump’s border wall hundreds of unused wall panels were left at construction sites,” Abbott wrote on Twitter.

“Texas has obtained 1,700 of those unused panels to help build the wall. They had been declared surplus — now they secure the border.”

The Texas Facilities Commission told The Post that it applied to acquire the panels as part of the Federal Surplus Program.

Though the program gives state and local governments federal property for free, the agency said Lone Star state paid for the transportation of the panels.

In April 2021, Biden began canceling federal contracts to build the federal border wall.

Abbott, however, vowed in June that he would continue its construction. The state committed $250 million as a “down payment” on the wall and began searching for a project manager to head the efforts.

A total of $1 billion in state tax dollars has since been set aside for the Texas border wall, Abbott’s campaign tells the Post.

Abbott has also sought public donations to build and as of Feb. 11, the state has received $55.2 million in donations, enough for one mile.

The TFC said it doesn’t have a current estimate on how much the wall in Texas will cost since the price ranges from section to section and mile to mile depending on terrain.

Earlier this month, the state announced the construction of a 1.7-mile stretch of wall in Starr County, west of McAllen, Texas. The section is expected to be completed by this spring, though the newly acquired panels will not be used in its construction.

President Trump’s administration built 52 miles of the new wall — as most of the existing wall was built under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. Under Trump, each mile of his border wall cost the American taxpayer $46 million.