Lawmakers immediately criticized President Trump's proposal, for a second year, to take defense funds to pay for the border wall he once promised Mexico would finance.
The Trump administration is seeking to shift $3.8 billion more from the defense budget to pay for constructing a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon notified Congress on Thursday, immediately provoking bipartisan objections for a second year.
President Trump, running for reelection, is eager to show progress on the project that was perhaps the No. 1 promise of his 2016 campaign. He vowed as a candidate that Mexico would pay for the wall, but as president he turned instead to the Pentagon’s deep pockets.Last year, he sought to take money from military housing and base construction.
“Congress has the constitutional responsibility to determine how defense dollars are spent,” Thornberry said in a statement. “The re-programming announced today is contrary to Congress’s constitutional authority, and I believe that it requires Congress to take action.”Lawmakers repeatedly sought to block Trump’s attempts to tap Pentagon funds last year.
The Pentagon request also strips $156 million in additional funds for the F-35, $180 million for an Air Force light attack aircraft, $650 million for amphibious assault ships and nearly $300 million for Army vehicles. Another $1.5 billion would be taken from accounts used to provide equipment for the National Guard and Reserve.
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