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Old 09-13-2019, 12:10 PM
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Trump's raid on military construction funds for his border wall will screw over critical Air Force projects, report says
By: Jared Keller September 13, 2019 at 02:23 PM
Re: https://taskandpurpose.com/trumps-ra...ts-report-says

An Air Force assessment indicates that the Trump administration's decision to reroute funding from dozens of the service's planned military construction projects "poses various national security risks for the U.S. armed forces," NBC News reports.

The internal report, obtained by NBC News on Friday, details how the Trump administration's September move to reprogram $3.6 billion in Defense Department funding for military construction projects to erect a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border impacts 51 specific Air Force projects out of 127 identified by the Pentagon.

Those projects include repairs and replacements that the service deemed critical to addressing safety and security concerns at various installations around the world, per NBC News, including:

1. An entry control point at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey at which the main gate is "degrading and not properly configured to provide proper protection for pedestrian and vehicle passage" among an increase in security breaches following the start of U.S. military operations against ISIS in neighboring Syria in 2014.

2. New facilities at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam for the storage of more than $1 billion in munitions, one of the largest stockpiles in U.S. Indo-Pacific Command's area of responsibility.

3. Critical repairs for boiler at Eielsen Air Force Base in Alaska that provides all electricity and heat for the base, the failure of which would "bee devastating to facilities and the missions housed by them within hours."

The Air Force is the second service branch to raise issues internally with President Donald Trump's February national emergency declaration, which allowed the commander-in-chief to bypass Congress and obtain funds for the border wall that was the central pillar of his presidential campaign.

In March, a pair of internal memos authored by then-Marine Commandant Gen. Robert Neller and obtained by the Los Angeles Times indicated that the "unplanned/unbudgeted" deployment of Marine Corps personnel to the U.S.-Mexico border posed an "unacceptable risk to Marine Corps combat readiness and solvency.

As Task & Purpose previously reported, the Trump administration is diverting funding from a total of 127 projects both in the U.S. and overseas, including $400 million form 10 projects related to Hurricane Maria recovery and more than $700 million in projects meant to help deter Russia in Europe.

When reached for comment, Air Force spokesperson Ann Stefanek reassured NBC News that "these projects are still very important, and we continue to be committed to our allies and partners."

But speaking to reporters following his February emergency declaration, Trump had claimed that the billions in funding he planned on diverting from the Pentagon budget wasn't going to be used for anything "important" anyway.

"We had certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals, at the discretion of the military," Trump said at the time. "Some of them haven't been allocated yet, and some of the generals think that this is more important."

"I was speaking to a couple of them. They think this is far more important than what they were going to use it for," he added. "I said, 'What are you going to use it for?' And I won't go into details, but it didn't sound too important to me."

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Trump say's he supports our Military but he's crossed the line when the budget was already allocated those funds for important military repairs that are badly needed.
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The U.S. Air Force reportedly believes Trump's actions will imperil national security.
By: Josh Israel - ShareBlue Media
RE: https://shareblue.com/donald-trump-b...onal-security/

Having already abandoned his promise to force Mexico to fully fund his massive border wall along the U.S. southern border, Trump is now planning to pay for the project by taking the money from appropriated military projects.

But it turns out this, too, is a broken campaign promise.

In 2016, before he assumed the presidency, then-candidate Trump pledged not to siphon funds from the military to pay for infrastructure projects like his long-promised border wall.

In a little-noticed interview with Newsday's editorial board in April 2016, Trump pledged a massive investment in America's crumbling infrastructure -- an idea he placed on hold in May to punish congressional Democrats for conducting oversight of his administration. Pressed as to how he would pay for this, Trump initially suggested that the nation could save money by extricating itself from the Middle East.

Rita Ciolli, editor of the newspaper's editorial pages, explicitly asked him whether this meant he would raid defense funds to pay to build infrastructure.

"We have to stop. No," Trump responded. "The military is going to be stronger and bigger and more modernized than ever before. The military is so important."

Ciolli: So you’re going to redirect funds from the military to the infrastructure?



Trump: We have to stop. No. The military is going to be stronger and bigger and more modernized than ever before. The military is so important. That’s number one, two and three on my list. We have to, we need security in this country, especially now with what’s going on. And if you look at what Russia is doing with their nuclear, you know, they’re really re-doing their nuclear and we have missiles, we don’t even know if they work. We have telephone systems that are 40 years old with wires that are rotted, in our nuclear bins.

But with Mexico refusing to bankroll his pet infrastructure project and a Congress that has repeatedly declined to do so, Trump is now attempting to do exactly what he said he would not do.

And his move could put the nation at risk. A report from NBC News on Friday revealed that the U.S. Air Force has determined that the president's "plan to pay for his proposed border wall by taking funds from more than four dozen Air Force military construction projects poses various national security risks for the U.S. armed forces."

Trump promised in 2016 that the wall would be complete by now, but contrary to his repeated false claims, almost no new construction has begun.

Under his latest plan, $3.6 billion would be taken from defense projects to pay for construction of an estimated 175 miles worth of wall -- a fraction of the length of the border.
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