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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
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Billions more likely coming from separate accounts in DoD (Military Construction).
Just today's transfer, is more money than the President received from Congress for the wall in 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined. And it is only a part of what will be hitting the street this year.
We are off to the races with a massive Border Wall building program.
“...account will be transferred to the Pentagon’s counter-drug fund...”
Sounds perfectly appropriate to me considering the wall will do more to “counter” drugs entering this country than just about anything else they could spend it on.
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.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
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Billions more likely coming from separate accounts in DoD (Military Construction).
Just today's transfer, is more money than the President received from Congress for the wall in 2017, 2018 and 2019 combined. And it is only a part of what will be hitting the street this year.
We are off to the races with a massive Border Wall building program.
“...account will be transferred to the Pentagon’s counter-drug fund...”
Sounds perfectly appropriate to me considering the wall will do more to “counter” drugs entering this country than just about anything else they could spend it on.
