The Defense Department, under Trump, intends to reprogram $2.5 billion that was originally designated by Congress for other projects.
Concertina wire tops the border wall in San Luis, Calif., on May 6, 2019. By Dan Lamothe Dan Lamothe Reporter covering the Pentagon and the U.S. military Email Bio Follow May 12 at 1:56 PM The Pentagon will shift $1.
“We look forward to hearing your views on how you intend to repair the damaged relationship between the defense oversight committees and the Department,” several Democratic senators, including Patrick J. Leahy , Jack Reed and Richard J. Durbin , wrote in a letter to the Pentagon on Friday. The $1.5 billion in reprogramming comes on top of about $1 billion in Army personnel money that the Pentagon said in March it would set aside for the border wall and $3.6 billion in military construction projects that the Defense Department intends to delay to build other sections of the wall.
The Pentagon also intends to reprogram some money for the wall from its Airborne Warning and Control System program, the document said. AWACS planes fly with a large antenna array on the outside of the fuselage, transmitting messages to strike aircraft. “We expect this type of thing to happen due to the innovative nature of DARPA’s work,” the document said.
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