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Pentagon Offers $3.8 Billion for Border Wall Request from FY ’20 Equipment Funds

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Pentagon Offers $3.8 Billion for Border Wall Request from FY ’20 Equipment Funds
NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN – An F-35B from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 121, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, refuels in flight while transiting the Pacific from Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Ariz., to Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, Jan. 9, 2017, with its final destination of Iwakuni, Japan.

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…

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