Pentagon To Tap Military Pensions Fund For Border Wall

[babylonsister]

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Pentagon To Tap Military Pensions Fund For Border Wall
March 7, 2019 Immigration, Military

The Associated Press reports:

The Pentagon is planning to tap $1 billion in leftover funds from military pay and pension accounts to help President Donald Trump pay for his long-sought border wall, a top Senate Democrat said Thursday.

Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., told The Associated Press, “It’s coming out of military pay and pensions. $1 billion. That’s the plan.” Durbin said, “Imagine the Democrats making that proposal — that for whatever our project is, we’re going to cut military pay and pensions.”

Durbin, the top Democrat on the Appropriations panel for the Pentagon, was among a bipartisan group of lawmakers who met with Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan on Thursday morning.

[malaise]

1. This cannot be true

Get thee to the greatest page. The vile MAGAcretin must be stopped.

[Qutzupalotl]

2. Republican leaders take the military for granted.

They know Republican voters are with them despite crap like this... and unnecessary wars.

[Baitball Blogger]

23. Maybe those leaders who never served take them for granted.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Leftover? Ignore recruiting shortages to take the money for Trump's fake emergency.

Ignore recruiting shortages to take the money for Trump’s fake emergency.

Fake emergency according to Trump’s own words.

[spooky3]

29. What does "leftover" mean here?

[Autumn]

4. If they have billions to piss away on shit , it's time to cut the military budget.

[BigmanPigman]

13. Ditto!

[Ferrets are Cool]

15. It is past time to cut it REGARDLESS. nt

[Blue_true]

30. I agree. House democrats should cut the next appropriations by the amount spent on the wall,

plus 15%. The Defense Department is saying that it has too much money by funding the wall.

[marylandblue]

5. It depends on how their budget is written, but they probably can't do it.

You typically can't reprogram pension funds to construction funds. The Pentagon budget would have to be written in a really strangely way, but if were written they way, it would make it a slush fund, and Congress rarely allows that.

[Chin music]

22. You typically cant sell out your country and plan on 47 months in prison either....

but that just happened. We need to get fired up. And I mean AWAY from the computer keyboards.
Why is trump so confident he's doing a lounge act at CPAC last week? bc he knows the fix is in...again. When they seem too cool for school, it's bc they have gotten the 411 that the heist is on and everythings allllll lined up. We see it cycle after cycle in American politics. Uncommonly comfortable w being TOTAL assholes. See m. garland and M McConnell. We were stunned and sure it wouldnt work....see gorsuch and kavanaugh. This slow roll is to hamstring the country while we all play by the rules and make nice.
Wait for Mueller? How long?

[FoxNewsSucks]

6. Here's how I predict it will play out

The Pentagon will again ask Congress to replace the money. If they don't, MF45 will say it is Democrats who won't support the troops. The corporate media will go along with it and never report that it is because tRump stole it for his stupid wall in the first place

[Blue_Tires]

8. Exactly... We've seen this charade before.

[A Brand New World]

9. That's been my prediction all along also.

The writing is on the “wall”.

[Blue_Tires]

7. I'm old enough to remember when the GOP treated everything military as sacred

How on Earth does anyone vote republican again after they have literally forsaken everything they claimed to hold dear for generations just to stay in bed with Trump?

I really hope somebody tricks Trump into passing a big gun control bill just so I can watch far-right congresscritters defend it

[Chin music]

21. They wont, but the rigged voting software will.

Stay tuned for more "close call' elections that fall to repubs in ways JUST ENOUGH to save the Senate etc. They always get JUST what they need don't they? Never fails. Good old computer software. One vote for you...two votes for us. Simple program. End of America?

[beachbum bob]

10. no protections at all on military pay, pensions and benefits. Can be cut at will

[marylandblue]

11. I'm pretty sure that's all set by Congress, so I think they are protected.

[beachbum bob]

34. what can be given can be taken away...

[Doodley]

12. Every Democratic lawmaker should be screaming from the rooftops to try to give oxygen to this story.

[jmbar2]

14. They should tap into the lobster fund instead.

[Honeycombe8]

16. If this is true, I hope the military is listening.

But I wonder...could this really be true?

Or is it that they're getting the $$$ from the Defense Dept, which I'd heard before, so Durbin just phrases it like this, since leftover pension money is in that account?

[Blue_true]

31. The acting Defense head had just briefed him and others.

He likely would have been told where money would be taken from during that briefing.

[Honeycombe8]

32. I see. Thanks. nt

[lpbk2713]

17. I can't imagine a career service member who was deployed to the border ...

and then hearing about this??

It might be advisable for Trump to run and hide. He has lost the military.

[Honeycombe8]

33. I don't think so. As Trump said....

I could shoot someone, and my people would still support me. I think it's true. Trumpers are blind followers, like a cult.

SOME in the military who are more independent are sure going to be angry, though.

[Duppers]

18. K & R

Dems should play this one too.

[WillParkinson]

19. Thank goodness...

Republicans and Trump LOVE the military. :eye roll:

[Chin music]

20. Surplus pension money in the military budget should replenish pensions nationwide

raped by the repubs in the last 20 years. Not go to trumps wall of china.

[Haggis for Breakfast]

24. WTF ???

OVER MY DEAD FUCKING MOLDERING CORPSE.

This Vietnam era veteran will not tolerate this.

Time to start the phone tree ringing, and waking up the entire forest.

This WILL NOT stand.

Not today.

Not tomorrow.

Not next week, next month or next year.

[PatrickforO]

25. YOU'VE GOTTA BE SHITTING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

No way! These people literally BLED for this country, put their lives on the line and this total shit-bag is going to try and STEAL their pensions??????????????

NO. This cannot stand.

I've got a couple US Senators and my 'freedom caucus' dumbass Rep. to call tomorrow on this issue.

Oh, God, I just loathe these capitalist dirtbags who gobble up working people's pensions - Aaargh.

Definitely a sensitive spot for me for sure. I urge all of you, PLEASE to call your Senators and Representative and nip this Trump shit-show in the bud.

[Evolve Dammit]

26. Vets supporting this POS; Why? Is it the Limbaugh brain washing every day on Armed Services Radio?

[slumcamper]

27. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTIN' ME.

Those crooked, xenophobic sons of bitches!!

Imagine the convo:

Individual 1: So...since Congress didn't give me the billions I want, but we must take care of our Russian comrades with interests in steel, let's reallocate some money from existing appropriations.

K. Neilsen: Well...we don't need any more steel cages...and Homeland's budget is already under stress and earmarked for current and future lawsuits...

S. Miller: We're not talking that much here, right? A few billion? Maybe Mnuchin could print and "lose" a few pallets of $100 bills..."W" funded the Iraqi transition and reconstruction to the tune of $12 billion.

Individual 1: Don't even mention that family...so LOW energy...

J. Kelley: Well, since you hugged the flag at CPAC, you sewed up the vet base. You know--the ones on disability who drive around in new pickups with huge eagles sprawled across the back window, an NRA sticker in the lower-left corner, and American flag decal on the lower-right? And especially the ones with large rubber scrotums hanging from the trailer hitch, and personalized plates with patriotic slogans. BACK POCKET. Those folks have benefits...and they're used to sacrificing. How about we just tap into that and go on a PR tour, blame Democrats for failing to fund things, and thank them again for answering the call of their country and for their continued sacrifice? They'll wave the flag and shout USA! USA at the next rally. They're EASY...and you're a star, so you can do anything...grab them...

Individual 1 (interrupts): Kelly, I get it! Perfect. And it's ideas like this is why I don't fire you.

S. Miller: But you should still have Mnuchin crank up the press. Those pallets might come in handy.

R. Guiliani: Miller has a point. Your defense isn't going to be cheap...

[Meeting interrupted as Don Jr. enters, approaches Individual 1, and whispers in his ear]

[kacekwl]

28. God forbid it

come out of money paid to the military industrial complex for 1 aircraft or the many cost overruns they stick us with. It's a stupid wall by stupid people.

[Luz]

35. I clean a military recruitment office. They have Fox news

on every tv, every day. They're all brainwashed and will say nothing.

[KewlKat]

36. Too bad that couldn't be given to the VA where it can do some good.

Might help the suicide among the military go down.