Pentagon to shift $3.8B for fighter planes, ships toward border wall

The Trump administration plans to sap money intended to build fighter jets, ships, vehicles and National Guard equipment in order to fund barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border, the Pentagon told Congress on Thursday, a move certain to agitate Democrats headed into a new budget and spending cycle.

The money will be drawn from a host of procurement accounts, many of which are popular on Capitol Hill. The move includes a cut of two Marine Corps F-35B fighter jets at a cost of $223 million; $100 million from the Army National Guard's Humvee modernization program; $650 million cut from the Navy's amphibious assault ship replacement; and $261 million from the Expeditionary Fast Transport ship.

Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard , the chair of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee, said the move doesn’t make sense, given the amount of money already flowing to the wall and the president’s request for just $2 billion next fiscal year. Ahead of Trump’s budget release on Monday, administration officials noted that about $8.4 billion in Homeland Security and Defense Department funding is already flowing toward a border barrier.

And when he gets us into a war of his own making with Iran and is in need of military funds it wont bother him one bit to take it from Social Security or Medicare. These people are devils.

What!! He just bragged at the State of the Union that he was revamping the military with weapons, planes etc since OBama did a terrible job! Just set that lie on top the others. We will have a good time lighting them up when Trump the incompetent is out!

A man got to do what a man got to do.

Good build it tall and deep. Keep those cockroaches out!

Mexico will pay 100% - MultiBillion Bait & Switch FRAUD Dems must take action, Abuse of Power, Misappropriation of Funds

Much needed...trust me. I lived in the desert Southwest bordering Mexico so I know what’s happened/happening on our border. It’s a priority. Trust me.

Yeah, Mexican pay the wall, ahahah what a clown. It's only a big lie. Blommerg is right, it's only a clown.

Is it really a campaign promise or is it jus wide open THEFT of TAX payers MONEY, a bipartisan vote jus passed stripping him of his decision making to keep AMERICANS safe because 45 POTUS is incapable of making the BEST decisions

Pretty sure we have a good reserve of jets, ships, and drones. Build that Wall now and at all cost

That barrier is National Security now!!

Scrap the F35 (which can’t perform its intended mission) and there’ll be enough money w/o touching other funds!

'Trump's wall: Winds blow over section of US-Mexico border fence'

cool, thx

But didn’t just give the pentagon 2 trillion in the last budget ? Border wall falls under the homeland security 💁🏼‍♀️

This is legal? SenateGOP SenateDems You approve? You think this is awesome?

And the international contingency fund for emergencies. I mean, heck, what can go wrong? Of course all of this is being put on our -- or more accurately our children's -- credit card. We'll owe China for it.

Trump straight up stealing from our military now...and his useless vanity hate wall won't work.

That's the way to show them Mexicans who's paying for the wall.

Epic

Yeah, RIGHT. What a bunch of FAKE tears.

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