The injunction blocks the administration from using up to $3.6 billion it planned to reallocate from military construction projects.
El Paso TimesEL PASO, Texas – A federal judge issued a nationwide injunction Tuesday against the Trump administration's use of military construction funds to build a border wall.
However, the judge's order doesn't prohibit the administration from using up to $2.5 billion in Department of Defense funding originally earmarked to support counter-drug activities. Representative Adam Smith, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, and Representative Veronica Escobar, tour the construction site of a new border fence being built in rural Southern New Mexico between Santa Teresa and Columbus, N.M., South of Highway 9 Tuesday, Oct. 8, in N.M."Right now, the court has prohibited the use of more than half of that redirected money," Garcia said." went above Congress by redirecting those funds. For us it’s an important victory.
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