Joe Biden BLOWS $50 billion on top consultants - three times the cost of Trump's border wall

Joe Biden's administration has blown more than $50 billion of taxpayer cash - three times the cost of Donald Trump's border wall - on top consulting firms since entering the White House.

A Daily Mail analysis of open-source U.S. government spending data shows that the 80-year-old racked up the eye-watering amount in just over two years on the job.

The figures could raise eyebrows amongst voters in key battleground states as ordinary Americans face a cost-of-living crisis and a rise in illegal immigration.

The price tag is also roughly equivalent to the annual defense budget of NATO member France. 

Trump also relied heavily on top consulting firms but the $66 billion his administration spent was across his four year stint as commander-in-chief.

With 20 months of Biden's first term left to run, his administration could end up spending more on consultants than the former president.

Biden's consultancy bill comes amid a long-running row between Democrats and Republicans over increasing the US government's $31.4 trillion spending cap and possible budget cuts. 

The biggest benefactor amongst some of the world's major consulting firms advising the U.S. government is Booz Allen Hamilton. 

Trump's planned border wall was immediately halted by Joe Biden when he entered the White House. The former president had earmarked as much as $16 billion for his flagship policy.

The data is taken from the open-source federal website USASpending.gov

The long-time Department of Defense contractor has raked in $26.6 billion in public funds since the start of Biden's presidency.

In August last year, it began a four-year $108.8 million contract providing the U.S. air force with regular 'survivability and lethality analysis' for its Pacific fleet in Hawaii.

BAH chief executive Horacio Rozanski picked up an $11.8 million compensation package last year, according to the firm's filing with U.S. regulators.

A spokesman for the Virginia-based corporation failed to respond to DailyMail.com's request for comment. Pentagon officials declined to comment.

Accenture, another major recipient of Pentagon cash, won $11.5 billion in government contracts since January 2021.

Deloitte, a British-founded services and advisory firm that picked up roughly a fifth of its government contracts from the Department of Defense, won business to the tune of $9.6 billion over the same period.   

Former Trump administration official Joe Grogan told DailyMail.com that 'there is a huge out-of-control industry around government contracts.'

Grogan oversaw domestic healthcare spending of $1.3 trillion during his two-year stint at the Office of Management and Budget.

He served until January 2019 under the former president at the body that scrutinizes how public funds are used.

'The knee-jerk response amongst various government agencies is that we will hire a consultant to tell us what to do rather than figure it out ourselves,' he said.  

'It was like a joke. They would give presentations, often with beautiful PowerPoints,' the ex-director of Trump's Domestic Policy Council said. 'But you rarely had a plan of action.'

'If we have less resources that might force us to be more focused,' Grogan added. 'The government has got way too bloated and just has far too many things to do.'

Patrick Hedger, the executive director of the Taxpayers Protection Alliance, a pressure group against wasteful government spending, said:  'Why is it necessary for agencies with budgets measured in the tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions, to outsource so much work? It sounds like taxpayers are getting a bad deal.'

And a Republican source inside Congress described the huge sums paid out from the public purse as 'crony capitalism.' 

On his first day in office, Biden axed the nearly $16 billion dollars in funding for Trump's border barrier, $10 billion of which was drawn from the DoD's budget

He blasted Trump's flagship anti-immigration policy as 'a waste of money that diverts attention from genuine threats to our homeland security.'

But more than 2.3 million migrants tried to illegally sneak into the United States across the Mexican border last year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.

That is up from 1.7 million people in 2021 and just over 450,000 the previous year when much of the world was locked down during the coronavirus pandemic.

The surge in migrants crossing is expected to continue as a Trump-era diktat that it made it easier to boot out illegals will expire later this month.

Joe Biden, seen here in January this year, wants to use processing centers in Guatemala and Colombia where would-be migrants can lodge asylum claims.

Several hundred thousand migrants have tried to sneak into the United States since Joe Biden became president 

Those emergency powers, known as Title 42, come from a 79-year-old federal law that the former president used from the start of the coronavirus pandemic.

It allows U.S. officials to expel migrants from the country without even hearing their asylum claims on public health grounds.

But on May 11, the use of Title 42 will lapse, sparking concerns amongst southern border states that more people will try to cross.

And Raul Ortiz, the chief of the U.S. border forces, said on Monday that as many as 22,000 migrants had been apprehended in the previous 72 hours.

The issue will be crucial in swing state Arizona, which narrowly backed Joe Biden in 2020 by 49.4% to 49.1% who voted for Trump.  

A lawsuit brought by a group of Republican-led states sought to keep the Title 42 rules in place.

The case made it to the Supreme Court, but justices refused to hear arguments after the White House vowed it will end the coronavirus emergency in May.