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In reply to the discussion: BREAKING: Rep Adam Smith just denied DoD ability to reprogram $1B in counter drug $ for Border Wall [View all]Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,922 posts)38. This article disagrees. Don't know if it's true
The Pentagon is putting $1 billion toward the wall and House Democrats cant stop them
The Department of Defense is moving $1 billion out of a military personnel fund to be used to construct 57 miles of border wall provoking strident (but impotent) objections from Democrats in Congress and setting up a big fight over next years Pentagon budget.
On Monday night, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan issued a letter to the Department of Homeland Security informing them that hed made $1 billion available for wall construction, by moving it into a military account for drug enforcement one of the three pots of money the Trump administration is tapping under its declaration of national emergency. (The logic is that the wall will impede drug-smuggling corridors, though all available evidence suggests that the majority of drugs smuggled into the US through Mexico come via official ports of entry.)
Leaders of the congressional committees overseeing the Pentagon that same day got notification of $1 billion in reprogramming shifting funds from one government agency or account to another from the military-personnel fund to the drug-enforcement fund.
House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) formally rejected that notice in a letter today: The committee does not approve the use of Department of Defense funds to construct additional physical barriers, he wrote.
But the letter was meaningless.
As Smith himself acknowledged while questioning Shanahan in an oversight hearing Tuesday, the request was unilateral it wasnt sent to Smith and Congress for approval, and its not something they have the ability to stop. The only thing that congressional Democrats can do now is to reduce the Pentagons ability to shift money around going forward and thats just what theyre threatening to do.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-pentagon-is-putting-dollar1-billion-toward-the-wall--and-house-democrats-cant-stop-them/ar-BBVgoXI?li=BBnb7Kz
The Department of Defense is moving $1 billion out of a military personnel fund to be used to construct 57 miles of border wall provoking strident (but impotent) objections from Democrats in Congress and setting up a big fight over next years Pentagon budget.
On Monday night, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan issued a letter to the Department of Homeland Security informing them that hed made $1 billion available for wall construction, by moving it into a military account for drug enforcement one of the three pots of money the Trump administration is tapping under its declaration of national emergency. (The logic is that the wall will impede drug-smuggling corridors, though all available evidence suggests that the majority of drugs smuggled into the US through Mexico come via official ports of entry.)
Leaders of the congressional committees overseeing the Pentagon that same day got notification of $1 billion in reprogramming shifting funds from one government agency or account to another from the military-personnel fund to the drug-enforcement fund.
House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) formally rejected that notice in a letter today: The committee does not approve the use of Department of Defense funds to construct additional physical barriers, he wrote.
But the letter was meaningless.
As Smith himself acknowledged while questioning Shanahan in an oversight hearing Tuesday, the request was unilateral it wasnt sent to Smith and Congress for approval, and its not something they have the ability to stop. The only thing that congressional Democrats can do now is to reduce the Pentagons ability to shift money around going forward and thats just what theyre threatening to do.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/the-pentagon-is-putting-dollar1-billion-toward-the-wall--and-house-democrats-cant-stop-them/ar-BBVgoXI?li=BBnb7Kz
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BREAKING: Rep Adam Smith just denied DoD ability to reprogram $1B in counter drug $ for Border Wall [View all]
kpete
Mar 2019
OP
But that's also why our guys should put pressure on him and the Repugnants for this by
cstanleytech
Mar 2019
#31
Our candidates should arm themselves with these photos for their Town Hall meetings.
allgood33
Mar 2019
#23
We've given so many trusted dollars to the military that they can't even spend it all anymore.
Chin music
Mar 2019
#51