Trump plans to divert $7.2 billion from Pentagon for border wall construction: report

The Hill ^ | 01/13/20 | JUSTINE COLEMAN

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President Trump plans to divert $7.2 billion from the Pentagon to go toward border wall construction this year, an amount five times greater than what Congress authorized in the budget, the Washington Post reported.

This would be the second year in a row that money is redirected to the wall on the U.S.-Mexico border from military construction projects and counternarcotics funding.

The administration will take $3.5 billion from counter-drug programs and $3.7 billion from military construction funding, according to internal planning figures obtained by The Post, compared to $2.5 billion and $3.6 billion, respectively, last year...

A total of $18.4 billion in federal funds has (will have) gone to the border wall during Trump’s presidency. The plans indicate that this new boost of funding would allow the administration to build about 885 miles of new fencing by spring of 2022, more than the 509 miles planned for the border, according to the Post.

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“Without the redemption of the courts it would be almost trivial for the next Democrat administration to roll it all back.”

Excellent point.