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applegrove

(118,696 posts)
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 12:26 AM Feb 2019

Trump Plans to Unilaterally Shift Almost $7 Billion

Trump Plans to Unilaterally Shift Almost $7 Billion

February 14, 2019 at 11:11 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 6 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2019/02/14/trump-plans-to-unilaterally-shift-almost-7-billion/

"SNIP....

President Trump “plans to use unilateral authority to spend more than $8 billion to construct physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border… a maneuver that risks provoking a lengthy legal battle over presidential powers,” Bloomberg reports.

“The president will invoke an emergency declaration to redirect $3.5 billion Congress approved for the Defense Department’s military construction budget, said another person familiar with the deliberations. Trump also will use his ordinary executive authority to reprogram $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s drug interdiction efforts and $600 million from the Treasury department’s drug forfeiture program, said the person, who asked not to be identified to discuss plans ahead of announcement.”

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Trump Plans to Unilaterally Shift Almost $7 Billion (Original Post) applegrove Feb 2019 OP
King Donald, watoos Feb 2019 #1
Let me get this straight TrogL Feb 2019 #2
Stupid, Psychotic, Fucker. Cha Feb 2019 #3
shifting money and shafting taxpayers while enriching himself Freethinker65 Feb 2019 #4
This guy who bankrupted how many casinos??? Blue Owl Feb 2019 #5
From now on the republiklan party safeinOhio Feb 2019 #6

TrogL

(32,822 posts)
2. Let me get this straight
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 01:18 AM
Feb 2019

He’s defunding two drug programs shown to work to fund a wall proven by history to not?

This will make the drug problems worse which can of course only be solved by increased police action.

Reichstadt fire anyone?

safeinOhio

(32,688 posts)
6. From now on the republiklan party
Fri Feb 15, 2019, 04:01 AM
Feb 2019

will be known as the party of expanded government power and unlimited deficits.

Don't let anyone forget.

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