Donald Trump to divert another $7.2 billion in military spending to build the border wall

  Fresh off of a court victory–however temporary it might be–on border wall funding it is being reported that Donald Trump intends to divert another $7.2 billion in military funding to the construction of a border wall on the Southern border.

 Here is more:

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.

  We know how this is going to go because this issue is still playing out in the courts from last year. This is going to be fought every step of the way as suddenly the Democrats–who were hawks when Donald Trump decided to pull some troops out of Syria only to become doves again when Donald Trump ordered the attack on Iran’s military leader– will become hawks once again on military spending.

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