Trump taking half a billion dollars from children of military families to pay for his wall
By Dan Desai Martin -
September 5, 2019
The Pentagon will take money meant for schools and child care centers to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised Mexico would pay for a border wall. But on Wednesday, the Pentagon announced that more than half a billion dollars will be taken from schools for military families to build the wall.
The Pentagon is taking $13 million meant for a child development center at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, and using it to build a wall. Ft. Campbell Middle School in Indiana was scheduled to receive more than $62 million for construction projects, but that money will be taken by the Pentagon.
In Puerto Rico, a U.S. territory that has been ravaged by hurricanes in recent years, the Ramey Unit School will have to do without $61 million for planned activities.
And it is not just military families in the U.S. who will sacrifice even more for Trump's racist whim — military families overseas will also feel a pinch. In Japan, Kinnick High School and Bechtel Elementary School will lose out on a combined $134.8 million. Military families in Germany and the U.K. will also lose out on hundreds of millions of dollars for schools there.
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And lets not forget that the US Supreme Court allowed this jerk to do this.......................
https://www.cnbc.com/2019/07/26/supreme-court-lets-trump-use-disputed-military-funds-for-border-wall.html
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