Trump plans to take another $3.6 billion from military families next year
By
Dan Desai Martin -
September 20, 2019
Donald Trump has no intention of using defense funds for actual defense programs — he wants them for his wall.
If Congress agrees to backfill funding for the military projects Donald Trump raided to build a border wall, the administration plans to raid them all over again next year, the Washington Post reported Thursday.
"The plan is to sell it as replenishment money to the Defense Department for the $3.6 billion they took this year," an administration official told the Post. "Then once they got it from Congress, they [the administration] would take it again" for the border wall.
The blunt admission comes as Congress is debating a spending package for next year, since government funding runs out on Sept. 30. At the end of 2018 and the beginning of 2019, Trump forced a partial government shutdown for 35 days as he demanded billions of dollars for a border wall.
In the end, Trump caved and agreed to reopen the government with the funding, only to then declare a "national emergency" at the border and claiming the ability to take money from military projects to build a border wall. (During the 2016 campaign, Trump promised over and over that Mexico would pay for the wall, not American taxpayers.)
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