Trump grabs another $3.8B from Pentagon for border wall

[Elderberry]

Washington Times By Stephen Dinan and Mike Glenn 2/13/2020

The White House informed Congress Thursday it will siphon another $3.8 billion away from the Pentagon to build President Trump’s border wall, sparking a new wave of anger on Capitol Hill where lawmakers said he’s trampling on their powers and shortchanging the troops.

With the move, Mr. Trump has now funneled nearly $10 billion from Pentagon accounts toward his wall over the last two years, spurring a feverish pace of construction as he races a self-imposed election deadline of having more than 400 miles built.

The Pentagon said Homeland Security requested the help last month, saying more money will build an additional 177 miles of steel bollard fencing at the U.S.-Mexico boundary. Defense officials said they concluded the wall was a high enough priority to shift the money over.

More: https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2020/feb/13/trump-grabs-another-38-billion-pentagon-border-wal/

[Elderberry]

Pentagon seeks to cut F-35s, other equipment to pay for Trump’s border wall

Defense News 2/13/2020 by Jen Judson

https://www.defensenews.com/breaking-news/2020/02/13/pentagon-seeks-to-cut-f-35s-other-equipment-to-pay-for-trumps-border-wall/

Among the victims of the cuts: a mass of aircraft purchases including F-35 joint strike fighters, C-130J cargo aircraft, MQ-9 Reaper drones and P-8 maritime surveillance planes, as well as ground vehicles and naval priorities — choices that drew quick, bipartisan condemnation from key defense lawmakers as reports of the plan filtered out Thursday.

Overall, the plan would shift $2.202 billion in FY20 defense appropriations and $1.629 billion in FY20 overseas contingency operations funding towards the wall, a key priority from president Donald Trump ahead of the November presidential elections.

Air Force and Navy aviation spending takes the brunt of the cuts proposed by the Pentagon, with aircraft procurement going down by $558 million for Navy and Marine Corps and $861 million for the Air Force. Importantly, all of the funding decreases target items that were specifically added by Congress during the budgeting process, which could incur rancor from lawmakers.

More at link

[darroll]

I'll bet MS13 is broken hearted.

[Smokin Joe]

The money quote (from the article):

Defense officials said they concluded the wall was a high enough priority to shift the money over.

[PeteS in CA]

Dems and their MSM shills are trying to create the image that this is "Trump's Wall". Not a wall that contributes to protecting US borders. Not a wall that should have been built by Clinton, Bush, and Obama.