Pentagon Authorizes Another $1.5 Billion For The Wall

Some estimates say that at about 63 percent of non-citizens are using some sort of welfare program. The amount the US spends on illegals per year far exceeds the amount Trump originally requested for a wall.

As reported earlier this year, the Pentagon has found $12.8 billion that could possibly be used to fund Trump’s wall. It has already approved $1 billion, and more is on the way.

According to this, the Pentagon has approved another $1.5 billion for 80 miles of border wall. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan made the announcement Friday.

“The Department of Defense is fully engaged in addressing the crisis on our southwest border, with more than 4,000 servicemembers and 19 aircraft currently supporting the Department of Homeland Security. Today, I authorized the transfer of $1.5 billion toward the construction of more than 80 miles of border barrier,” Shanahan said. “The funds were drawn from a variety of sources, including cost savings, programmatic changes and revised requirements, and therefore will have minimal impact on force readiness.”

In February, Trump said he planned to pull $3.6 billion from military construction funds and another $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s drug interdiction program through an executive order. The funds are part of an overall plan to use $8 billion to build a southern border wall.

Friday’s move adds to another $1 billion already transferred from Army programs for wall construction and reaches the $2.5 billion in funds called for in the executive order.

The Pentagon said the funding would be used to replace fences on four projects near Tucson, Ariz., and El Centro, Texas.

Despite what MSM says, things are moving along.

h/t Stars and Stripes