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Lawmakers block Pentagon move to transfer $1 billion for Trump's border wall [Misleading Title]
MSN ^ | 3/26/2019 | Ryan Pickrell

Posted on 03/26/2019 1:27:27 PM PDT by dhuls

Lawmakers blocked the Department of Defense's move to transfer $1 billion for the construction of a physical barrier along the US-Mexico border, the latest showdown in the battle over the border wall that President Trump has vowed to build.

On Monday, the Pentagon authorized the transfer of funds to Army engineers for projects along the border, which include building 57 miles of 18-foot-high fencing, constructing and improving roads, and installing lighting in support of Department of Homeland Security and Customs and Border Patrol. The move was carried out under the president's declaration of a national emergency, the department said in a statement.

As Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan was testifying before his committee, Rep. Adam Smith, the Democrat who chairs the House Armed Services Committee, released a letter denying the Pentagon's move to reprogram $1 billion.

"The House Committee on Armed Services has completed its review of the proposed reprogramming request," Smith's letter read, according to a copy obtained by Military Times. "The committee denies this request."

In a more detailed statement, Smith called the Department of Defense's decision to reprogram $1 billion without Congressional approval a violation of trust. "DoD is attempting to circumvent Congress and the American people's opposition to using taxpayer money for the construction of an unnecessary wall."

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: 116th; border; borderwall; house; lawmakers; obstructionistdems; pentagon; trumpdod; trumpwall; veryfakenews
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To: rstrahan

The democrats really, I mean really, hate the wall, don’t they?

Celebrated a few years ago when Obola refused to stop unlimited access for Africans from areas infected with the Ebola virus from coming over here too, didn’t they?


61 posted on 03/26/2019 3:04:35 PM PDT by Robert A Cook PE (The democrats' national goal: One world social-communism under one world religion: Atheistic Islam.)
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To: dhuls

What do you call it if all pro-illegals politicians die in a train wreck?

A damn good start.


62 posted on 03/26/2019 3:11:45 PM PDT by Boomer (Islam and the democrats are the biggest threats to the American way of life.)
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To: FES0844

As Truth, Justice and Freedom WINS.. The Demonrats double-down on Destruction. There is no end to their obstinacy.


63 posted on 03/26/2019 3:15:04 PM PDT by DivineMomentsOfTruth ("There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -GW)
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To: dhuls

Arseholes did nothing when President Obama moved billions in cash to Iran.


64 posted on 03/26/2019 3:15:39 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
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To: caww

That picture broke my gaydar.


65 posted on 03/26/2019 3:17:01 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: Boomer

What do you call it if all pro-illegals politicians die in a train wreck?

I’d feel sorry for the train.


66 posted on 03/26/2019 3:18:28 PM PDT by Pravious
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To: dhuls

Trump really should not give a damn what the committee wants now. Too bad Mr Chairman, that bus has left the station.


67 posted on 03/26/2019 3:19:37 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: All

Propaganda piece, American citizenry wants the wall!


68 posted on 03/26/2019 3:21:29 PM PDT by Retvet (Retvet)
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To: gaijin

Exactly. Promote the abortion of citizens and replace them with people who have no allegiance to the US.


69 posted on 03/26/2019 3:27:46 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (Being woke means you can be nasty, hateful and use racist slurs yet feel morally superior.)
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To: Pravious

He’s got that perp look


70 posted on 03/26/2019 3:37:06 PM PDT by caww
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To: plain talk
Adam Smith should have stuck with writing about economics and not gone into politics. The Wealth of Nations is a pretty good book.
71 posted on 03/26/2019 3:37:14 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: gleeaikin

The issue is that the committee, after having appropriated national defense money, does not have discretion over its reallocation to responding to this declared national emergency. The dems are overreaching, and I firmly believe the committee does not have the authority they have claimed.

I could be wrong, but if I am then heads may need to roll - politically, at first.


72 posted on 03/26/2019 3:42:43 PM PDT by MortMan (Americans are a people increasingly separated by our connectivity.)
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To: Pravious
That picture broke my gaydar.

Bingo.

73 posted on 03/26/2019 3:55:12 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Someone who has sex with hookers, and does blow off a public toilet.


74 posted on 03/26/2019 3:56:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: gaijin

There’s a sure-fire way to deal with these a-holes ... But FR mods would likely suspend my account if I stated the method.


75 posted on 03/26/2019 4:05:47 PM PDT by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: caww

Yeah, tell me he don’t smoke dick ...


76 posted on 03/26/2019 4:06:26 PM PDT by JME_FAN (If you lived here, you'd be home by now.)
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To: Herman Ball
It is time for a Revolution and I am serious.

Way past time. Our founders would have burned down their houses and buildings by now. Voting has proven that it doesn't matter anymore.

77 posted on 03/26/2019 4:15:08 PM PDT by unixfox (Abolish Slavery, Repeal the 16th Amendment)
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To: bkopto
(Vanity) A Look Back At Immigration, or Fifty Years of Lies
78 posted on 03/26/2019 4:17:32 PM PDT by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: dhuls
"DoD is attempting to circumvent Congress and the American people'sDemocrat Party's opposition to using taxpayer money for the construction of an unnecessary> wall."

Fixed it.

79 posted on 03/26/2019 4:23:51 PM PDT by matt04
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To: dhuls

Sorry but congress only had one option to block this, and they didn’t receive enough votes to override Trumps Veto. Congress can’t do jack diddle about it now.


80 posted on 03/26/2019 4:32:46 PM PDT by Revel
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