Pentagon Diverts $1 Billion from Army Barracks to Fund Border Mission
Military.com | By Steve Beynon
Published May 28, 2025 at 10:33am ET
The Pentagon is shifting $1 billion meant for maintaining and renovating Army barracks to instead fund its surge of troops to the U.S.-Mexico border, a move that coincides with the service's gradual deprioritization of quality-of-life initiatives for soldiers.
Redirecting the barracks funding erodes much of the additional money the Army started pouring into living quarters during the previous administration. The funding could be partially replaced by a separate $1 billion in proposed barracks investments across all services in Congress' so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill,” but that legislation, designed to enact President Donald Trump's agenda, would still leave the Army with an enormous financial loss on maintaining living quarters for junior troops.
The shift of Army barracks money to the border mission was laid out in a wide-ranging Defense Department plan, sent to Congress on May 8, to move funding between various programs. The service declined to comment on how the cut might affect ongoing projects.
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