El Presidente Trumpo asked and he shall receive $1.5 billion from the Pentagon for the border wall.
They didn’t just find a spare $1.5 billion, they’re transferring it from other places:
Acting U.S. Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has approved the transfer of $1.5 billion to build more than 80 miles (130 km)of barriers on the border with Mexico, U.S. officials said on Friday, including taking about $600 million from an account meant for Afghan security forces.
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Of course, the Democrats are opposing it:
The latest move was opposed by congressional Democrats, who also criticized a March transfer of $1 billion in military money to fund Republican President Donald Trump’s wall.
“The funds were drawn from a variety of sources, including cost savings, programmatic changes and revised requirements, and therefore will have minimal impact on force readiness,” Shanahan said in a statement.
Shanahan said that the U.S. military had more than 4,000 service members on the border, along with 19 aircraft.
Very interesting. I wonder what other departments are hiding that we could re-appropriate, or simply stop spending…