Appeals court says Trump border wall project can use military funds during legal challenge

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The Trump administration has tapped billions of dollars of funds earmarked for military use to fund the construction of a wall on the United States' border with Mexico.

while the Trump administration continues challenging a lower federal court's injunction against diversion of the funds for that purpose.

The two judges in the majority said the administration is "entitled to the same relief" granted by the Supreme Court because of the likelihood that the plaintiffs in the case — El Paso County, Texas, and the Border Network for Human Rights — will be found to lack legal standing to challenge the administration's use of the military construction funds.

A final ruling on the legality of the use of the military funds for the planned border wall with Mexico will come later.in order to tap defense funds for the border wall. While the "This is a victory for the rule of law. We are committed to keeping our borders secure, and we will finish the wall," Grisham said.

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NO ❤️ for this one!

Security that can be cut through, crawled over and flown over. How about we build a wall around trump? He's the one we need to worry about.

ResistBigly That’s terrible

It’s called security . Good Deal God Bless🇺🇸

Hmm, is it $3.6 Billion from Mexico’s military funds because Trump promised that Mexico would pay for his wall and Trump would not take money from the United States military he claims to love, right

Mormons always said, The majority doesn't matter, They will control the electoral college, Seat the supreme court and federal judges There will be a wall on the boarder of Mexico WW3 and cleanse the earth Shut down production for seven years Inherit the earth.

I see two more bots are speaking.😂😂

Another win

Yeah. So spend the money now that may be ruled illegal later. “Totally” makes sense in trumplandia bc of course you can’t unspend it

All trump does is

therealcpeace what happened to Mexico paying for it? Haha

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