Pentagon wants Congress to replenish funds Trump taps for border wall

[MiniMe]

https://www.rollcall.com/news/congress/pentagon-plans-recoup-lost-military-construction-funds?fbclid=IwAR3bGX9RFD5g33wsPYaUzvj3o5DWGh3q5cXepPrbbwttJuthNF1Akd6-Nd0

The Pentagon every year comes to Congress to defend its ever-growing budget, highlighting the decrepit military installations and decades-old equipment that must be refurbished or replaced to defend the nation.

But now, Pentagon officials are telling lawmakers that diverting dollars from defense projects to build President Donald Trump’s desired border wall is justified and won’t weaken the military — so long as Congress replenishes the accounts Trump could tap to build the wall.

“Some current military construction projects may be deferred” if military construction money is used to pay for the wall, Robert H. McMahon, assistant secretary of Defense for sustainment, told the House Military Construction-VA Appropriations Subcommittee on Wednesday. “The fiscal year 2020 president’s budget request will include a request for funds to replenish funding for these projects.”

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more at the link.

Grrrrr

[FreepFryer]

1. Nope. Trump pays, one way or the other. let him answer for the thousands of military families...

...whose basic needs will go even further unaddressed.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. No way.

[MyOwnPeace]

3. Isn't that the Republican game?

That's what they keep doing with the budget:

Here's a TAX CUT!!!!!

Uh-oh!!!!!

There is a defecit!!!!!

We need to cut Social Security / Medicare!!!!!


Yeah, it's called the REVERSE ROBIN HOOD: TAKE from the poor / GIVE to the rich!

F.U!!!!!!!!!!!!

[gratuitous]

4. If diverting the funds won't weaken the military but only if the raided funds are replenished. . .

Man, I'm thinking this is the kind of logic you have to work in the Pentagon to appreciate. If the President raids the military budget to pay for his stupid wall, and that money is replenished by special congressional appropriation, then the military budget hasn't been raided at all.

Here's your answer: No.

[keithbvadu2]

5. If Trump takes the funds, that means those dollars are not needed by the Pentagon.

If Trump takes the funds, that means those dollars are not needed by the Pentagon.