PALM BEACH, Fla. — During his first news conference since winning the White House for a second term, President-elect Donald Trump said Monday he plans to file a restraining order against the Biden administration to stop it from selling unused pieces of the border wall. 

During a freewheeling event with reporters at Mar-a-Lago that touched upon many of his campaign talking points, Trump said the transition to his second term is “friendly” but took issue with the outgoing administration’s “very terrible” decision to sell the construction materials for pennies on the dollar.

“The people who are buying it are trying to make a deal to sell it back at hundreds of times more than we paid, and this is all because of the Democrats. So I’m asking Joe Biden today to stop selling the wall,” Trump said, adding that he has spoken with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz, also of Texas, to stop the sales.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

During Trump’s first term, 571 miles of specially constructed walls were erected between the U.S. border with Mexico and another 200 miles were made but never installed. 

“We’re going to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on building the same wall we already have,” Trump said. “It’s almost a criminal act.”

Congress last year required the Biden administration to dispose of the unused border wall pieces. The measure, included in the massive National Defense Authorization Act, allows for the sale or donation of the items to states on the southern border, providing they are used to refurbish existing barriers, not install new ones. Congress also directed the Pentagon to account for storage costs for the border wall material while it has gone unused.