GOP coronavirus bill replaces money for Pentagon projects Trump raided for border wall
Source: Washington Post,
The GOP Senates new $1 trillion coronavirus stimulus bill restores hundreds of millions of dollars in Pentagon spending that the Trump administration redirected to help pay for President Trumps border wall.
Navy planes and ships and Air Force aircraft that the Trump administration canceled earlier this year so the money could go to pay for the wall have reappeared in the GOP bill that was introduced on Monday. The programs are part of $30 billion in defense spending in the GOP bill that Democrats are already objecting to. Republicans are defending the spending as important to protect jobs and help the Pentagon cope with impacts of coronavirus.
The Trump administrations move to reprogram Pentagon money, to build Trumps promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border has been a long-running dispute between the administration and Congress. Lawmakers of both parties have objected, but the administration contends it can move the Pentagons money without congressional approval.
Now Senate Republicans, led by Appropriations Chairman Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), have taken the opportunity presented by the coronavirus stimulus bill to restore spending on some of the programs they deemed most critical -- although Democratic objections make it uncertain whether the spending will make it into any final bill.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/07/28/coronavirus-bailout-wall/
Hey kids, you don't need $30 billion for the fence.
The project is cancelled Wednesday, January 20, 2021.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)Baitball Blogger
(46,769 posts)his border wall.
LiberalArkie
(15,730 posts)cstanleytech
(26,334 posts)No, if they want this bill to pass then the varies government agencies and projects need to suck it up and the blame can and should be directed at Trump and the Republicans in the House and Senate when people in those districts complain of delayed projects because they refused to grow a spine and do their job which is to be a check on the power of a President.
IronLionZion
(45,562 posts)since corona comes from Mexico