Two federal courts in two days have issued nationwide orders blocking Trump administration's use of $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build border wall.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Two federal courts in two days have issued nationwide orders blocking the Trump administration's use of $3.6 billion in military construction funds to build a wall along the border of the United States and Mexico, declaring that repurposing those funds would be"unlawful."
"[The] border barrier projects [the Trump administration] now assert are 'necessary to support the use of the armed forces' are the very same projects [the administration] sought -- and failed -- to build under [Homeland Security's] civilian authority, because Congress would not appropriate the requested funds," Gilliam wrote in his ruling released Wednesday.
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