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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/
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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 Departments 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 Departments drug interdiction efforts and $600 million from the Treasury departments drug forfeiture program, said the person, who asked not to be identified to discuss plans ahead of announcement.
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watoos
(7,142 posts)the emperor with no clothes.
TrogL
(32,822 posts)Hes 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?
Cha
(297,323 posts)Freethinker65
(10,024 posts)Blue Owl
(50,427 posts)JFC...
safeinOhio
(32,688 posts)will be known as the party of expanded government power and unlimited deficits.
Don't let anyone forget.