Pentagon transferring (Another) $3.8 billion to border wall

The Hill ^ | 02/13/20 | REBECCA KHEEL AND NIV ELIS

[BeauBo]

The Pentagon is moving $3.8 billion from various weapons programs such as the F-35 fighter jet to pay for President Trump’s southern border wall, according to a notice sent to Congress on Thursday (13 Feb 2020)...

Congress twice voted to overturn Trump's emergency declaration, which allowed him to reprogram defense funds for the wall, but were unable to override his vetoes.

The money being reprogrammed Thursday is being taken under a different executive authority that allows counter-drug funds to be used on the wall.

The notice says that $2.2 billion from the Pentagon’s base fiscal 2020 budget and $1.6 billion from a war fund known as the Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) account will be transferred to the Pentagon’s counter-drug fund, which will then be used on the wall.

[A Navy Vet]

"I remember being told that Mexico was going to pay for this wall, or at least part of it. Is the new trade agreement somehow going to provide the money from them for Trump to keep that promise?

It's not the USMCA. It was the threat Pres. Trump made to the new Mexican president about tariffs. Mexico now has troops on their southern border and some on the northern border. Plus, they will keep the bogus asylum seekers in country while they await US hearings. So, yes, Mexico is now indirectly helping to pay for the wall.

[BeauBo]

“How about these”

Those (Quad .50 cals) are crowd pleasers, no doubt. Capable not only of stopping infiltrators, but also of flinging some of their major body parts back over to the Mexican side of 18 foot bollards.

But I just don’t see the JAGs signing off on them...

[blueplum]

That’s the way, we like it. uh huh uh huh. That’s the way, we like it!

[Ancesthntr]

“But I just don’t see the JAGs signing off on them...”

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I’m an attorney, and I believe that it is time to get rid of 90% of them (like lawyers in private practice). As a citizen with knowledge of how the profession works, and how individual actors behave, I can say without reservation that we’d be far better off as a society with 1/10 of the lawyers we have now.

[olesigh]

Build on!

[olesigh]

And illegal aliens