Pentagon finds $12.8 billion it could use to fund President Trump’s border wall

[Swordsmyth]

The Department of Defense has provided a list of $12.8 billion worth of projects from which President Donald Trump could divert funding in order to pay for a wall on the United States' southern border.
Democrats pushed for the list to be released in hopes of rallying members of Congress to vote to override the president's veto of legislation blocking his national emergency declaration — but their strategy could backfire.
What are the details?

During a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing last week, Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.), the ranking member on the committee, pressed acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan to provide a list of projects that could be sacrificed in order to pay for a border wall under President Trump's declared national emergency.
Reed received the 20-page list Monday and subsequently released it on Twitter, warning that "military bases in your state could be negatively impacted."

"What President Trump is doing is a slap in the face to our military that makes our border and the country less secure," Reed said in a separate statement. "Now that members of Congress can see the potential impact this proposal could have on projects in their home states, I hope they will take that into consideration before the vote to override the President's veto."


A two-thirds majority of Congress is needed to override the president's veto, and the votes likely aren't there. So Reed is hoping lawmakers in states that could be affected will be swayed to vote against the threat of funds being diverted.
But that strategy could have the opposite effect, given the Pentagon's disclosure that the funds are, indeed, available for President Trump to build the wall he has long promised to supporters after Congress refused his request during budget negotiations.
What's on the list?

Projects in several states are at risk, including a $6.3 million cryogenics facility in South Carolina, a $13 million child development center in Maryland, and a $15 million human performance training center in Colorado.
Military spending in other countries could also be reallocated. The Pentagon said that, if needed, it could hold off on plans for a $27 million gym and dining facility in Guam, $66 million for a taxiway and apron upgrades in Italy, and $31 million for austere quarters in the Bahamas.


https://www.theblaze.com/news/pentag...or-border-wall

[Cleaner44]

[dannno]

Projects in several states are at risk, including a $6.3 million cryogenics facility in South Carolina

So many Idiocracy jokes in that one.. How much of that $6.3 million went toward infiltrating prostitution rings?

[nikcers]

They could always audit the Pentagon if they can't find any money..

[timosman]

They could always audit the Pentagon if they can't find any money..

We need to find out whose arms were twisted to cough up this money for Trump.

[enhanced_deficit]

This is pretty major development and would go a long way in shoring GOP base support and restore MAGA's credibility as keeper of promises that latey was under attack from extreme conservatives like Coulter with reckless "zero wall" narrative.
This if confimred as non-fakenews would also be a stern message to 25 Constitutional purist Republicans who had sided with Dems to vote against MAGA's Emergency Declaration few days ago. In the end, art of the deal wins one way or the other.

[Anti Globalist]

But of course the money won't be used for it.

[enhanced_deficit]

But of course the money won't be used for it.

Whay would you think that?

Wall is his no.1 campaign promise he seems daed serious about it. MAGA also risks losing some conservative base support if he flip flopped as happened on 2nd amendtment promises.

[Swordsmyth]

Trump Administration Pushes Back On Media Report Claiming ‘ZERO New Walls’ Built

[devil21]

And the $2trillion the Pentagon lost before 9/11? What of that? Did they find that?