Money from Puerto Rico, European projects to fund wall
By Paul Sonne and
Seung Min Kim September 4 at 6:38 PM
The Pentagon is defunding Hurricane Maria recovery projects at military installations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands to pay for President Trump’s border barrier and is also taking money from construction projects across Europe designed to help allies deter Russia.
The details of the 127 military construction projects that stand to lose funding to free up $3.6 billion for fencing and barriers on the southern border with Mexico were made public late Wednesday by the Defense Department. The list features projects in 23 states, three U.S. territories and 20 countries.
The decisions deal a particular blow to Puerto Rico, which stands to see more than $400 million worth of planned projects lose funding. Roughly $770 million of the money will be taken from projects in allied European nations aimed at helping them deter a possible attack from Russia ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/pentagon-tells-congress-which-projects-it-will-defund-to-pay-for-trumps-wall/2019/09/04/5b2a50fe-cf34-11e9-9031-519885a08a86_story.html