Pentagon plans to shift $3.8 billion in military funding to build border wall
Source: NBC News
Feb. 13, 2020, 3:11 PM EST
By Courtney Kube
The Pentagon plans to divert $3.8 billion in military funding to pay for the construction of hundreds of more miles of the southern border wall, according to a notice sent to Congress on Thursday.
The Department of Defense "reprogramming" notice says it plans to pull $2.2 billion from an account that funds counterdrug activities and another $1.6 billion from a war account known as the Overseas Contingency Operations fund.
The transfer of funds would have an impact on the purchase of new aircraft, vehicles and weapons including Navy V-22 Osprey aircraft and parts for an Air Force reaper drone and F-35 planes, the notice says.
"DHS has identified areas along the southern border of the United States that are being used by individuals, groups, and transnational criminal organizations as drug smuggling corridors, and determined that the construction of additional physical barriers and roads in the vicinity of the United States border is necessary in order to impede and deny drug smuggling activities," the notice says.
Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/pentagon-plans-shift-3-8-billion-military-funding-build-border-n1136636
WTAF... *sigh*
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)Link to tweet
Chris Murphy ✔@ChrisMurphyCT
The shortsightedness of this administration is dumbfounding. The President is stealing money from programs that keep us safe during real national emergencies to fund his stupid border wall.
Lara Seligman ✔@laraseligman
Scoop: Trump is preparing to divert $3.8B in total from programs across DOD, including a controversial war account used to fund emergency requirements, as well as the procurement of ships, aircraft and Army vehicles, to build the wall. My latest https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/13/trump-national-guard-funding-border-wall-mexico/
3:46 PM - Feb 13, 2020
dustyscamp
(2,224 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,018 posts)dhill926
(16,351 posts)maybe the military doesn't need all that money to begin with...
BigmanPigman
(51,625 posts)denvine
(802 posts)That money could be put to better use since the military doesn't need it.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,880 posts)edbermac
(15,943 posts)Evolve Dammit
(16,760 posts)Lions and tigers and bears, oh my. Please clap for 45. He's struggling here
DeminPennswoods
(15,290 posts)spend, so the House Ways and Means committee is fully justified in giving DoD's budget request not just a haircut, but a buzz cut.
MissMillie
(38,574 posts)building a wall most security experts say is ridiculous.... well, that's more important.
bucolic_frolic
(43,258 posts)or anything similar
cstanleytech
(26,317 posts)in the House however to pay for it the wealthy and corporations will see a significant increase in taxes.
The Republicans and Trump will then be trapped as if they really want the wall then they will have to support it and raise the taxes but if they do not want the wall they will have to say no.
Either way its a win for us.