
A new Defense Department reprogramming request reveals the Pentagon has identified $3.8 billion in fiscal year 2020 equipment budgets to supply funding for the Trump administration’s border wall project. The request, obtained by Defense Daily, shows that about $2.2 billion in FY ’20 appropriations funding and $1.6 billion in FY ’20 Overseas Contingency Operations (OCO) funding would be shifted to support new border wall construction along the U.S.-Mexico border. Each of the affected programs are highlighted to be “congressional special…