Pentagon to redirect $2.2B in border wall funds back to military projects

[left-of-center2012]

The Pentagon will restore $2.2 billion to military construction projects that were stripped by the Trump administration to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the Defense Department announced Friday. The money will go to 66 projects in 16 countries, 11 U.S. states and three U.S. territories in fiscal 2021, Deputy Defense Secretary Kathleen Hicks wrote in a memorandum.

The Biden administration in late April announced it would cancel border wall projects that had been funded through the Defense Department and return the funds to the military construction projects from which they were pulled during the Trump administration.

Former President Trump had diverted billions in Pentagon construction, weapons and counterdrug funds — including $3.6 billion in construction dollars — toward building the wall, using emergency powers after Congress refused to fully fund the project directly.

Pentagon press secretary John Kirby said Friday that of an original 123 projects that had been stripped of their funds, the money meant for more than 50 of those had already been used for the border wall.
Kirby also said he did not have information on the $2.5 billion Trump took from the department’s counterdrug funds.

https://thehill.com/policy/defense/558064-pentagon-to-redirect-22b-in-border-wall-funds-back-to-military-projects

[WarGamer]

1. the MIC doesn't have enough money?

How about re-funding the PPP for small cap businesses who never took a first or second draw?

Or additional rental assistance?

Or job re-training?

More bombs?

[left-of-center2012]

2. "More bombs?"

You can click on the linked article and see where the money is going.
I don't remember 'bombs'' being one of the,

[left-of-center2012]

4. You are entitled to your opinion

Others see China and Russia as military threats.

Have a nice day, as in 'Bye'

[Angleae]

5. They can't redirect it.

It's either back to the military for its original purpose or to the wall. Once the money has be allocated to a specific organization, unless there is some law saying otherwise, it can't be transferred.

[left-of-center2012]

6. Yes, that's what the OP said

“redirect ... back to military projects”