More than 80 percent of people in the Military voted for the current resident of the White House. Over the past couple of years, he's pillaged the military budget that he so proudly touted, to fund his own projects. He removed $2.5 BILLION dollars from the Military in 2019, and NOW he's taking another $7.2 BILLION from the Military. In fact, here in Maryland, the upgrades to Fort Meade and all of the surrounding roadways are STOPPED because he has stolen the money from the Dept of Defense. KEEP THIS IN MIND MILITARY FOLKS... when you VOTE. Your commander in chief has upped your budget and removed a LOT MORE of it to fund his stupid border wall. Here's the story>>>
January 14, 2020- Trump is planning to divert an additional $7.2 billion from the Department of Defense in order to fund his wall along the southern border with Mexico. If the plans go forward, it would be the second time the president has ordered that funds allocated to the Pentagon by Congress be diverted for wall construction.
Trump planning to divert additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds for border wall
By
Nick Miroff
Jan. 13, 2020 at 7:35 p.m. EST
President Trump is preparing to divert an additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding for border wall construction this year, five times what Congress authorized him to spend on the project in the 2020 budget, according to internal planning figures obtained by The Washington Post.
The Pentagon funds would be extracted, for the second year in a row, from military construction projects and counternarcotics funding. According to the plans, the funding would give the government enough money to complete about 885 miles of new fencing by spring 2022, far more than the 509 miles the administration has slated for the U.S. border with Mexico.
Trump took $2.5 billion from military counterdrug programs for border barrier construction in 2019, but this year his administration is planning to take significantly more — $3.5 billion. Trump administration officials also are planning to take $3.7 billion in military construction funding, slightly more than the $3.6 billion diverted in 2019.
Pentagon has warned of dire outcomes if military projects canceled for wall don’t happen
The move would bring the total amount of federal funds allocated to border fencing to $18.4 billion under Trump, who made the border barrier a priority during his campaign for the presidency in 2016. He also pledged to make Mexico pay for the barrier, delighting crowds at his rallies.
