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Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Criticize DoD Procurement Reprogramming to Trump’s Border Wall

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Bipartisan Group of Lawmakers Criticize DoD Procurement Reprogramming to Trump’s Border Wall
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) contractors place rebar at footings of retaining walls on June 20, 2019. This project is for new border wall in the U.S. Border Patrol's San Diego Sector, which is funded by CBP and executed by USACE.

Lawmakers across Capitol Hill are fighting against the Trump administration’s shift of nearly $4 billion in procurement funding to fund new border wall construction, with multiple defense-oriented Republican members citing executive branch overreach as the main factor. House Armed Services Committee (HASC) leaders Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) and Ranking Member Mac Thornberry (R-Texas) made explicit their disapproval of the Pentagon’s shift of $3.8 billion from appropriated fiscal year 2020 funds meant to buy military aircraft, ships and trucks to instead…

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