President Joe Biden was trying to auction off materials intended for construction of a border wall “for pennies on the dollar in secret.” Some members of Congress made similar claims on social media and in interviews that the Biden administration was selling pieces of usable material to stifle wall-building efforts just a month before President-elect Donald Trump takes office.

A post shared on X claims U.S. Marines purportedly stopped contractors from selling border wall construction materials. Verdict: False The claim is false and originally stems from a Dec. 17 article published on the satire site “Real Raw News.