President Trump plans to divert an additional $7.2 billion in Pentagon funding for border wall construction in 2020, five times what Congress authorized, The Washington Post reports.
Citing internal planning figures obtained by the Post, the Trump administration will pull $3.7 billion in funding from military construction projects and $3.5 billion from counterdrug program funding for the southern border wall, which Trump hopes to tout in his reelection campaign.The additional funds will allow the government enough money to complete approximately 885 miles of new fencing by the spring of 2022, the Post reported.
Read MoreIn September, CNN reported that the Trump administration was discussing diverting more money from the Pentagon budget to constructing the border wall, a US official familiar with funding of the project told CNN at the time.Last week, a federal appeals court allowed the administration to use the billions in military construction funds for the wall -- which Trump touted as a victory -- after a lower court blocked the administration from dipping into them last month.
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