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Billions of dollars President Donald Trump planned to reallocate toward building a wall on the southern border has already been spent, according to Roll Call.

Trump wants as much as $6.7 billion taken from other programs in order to pay for the wall, which includes $2.5 billion in Pentagon counterdrug money.

Problem is, most of that counterdrug money has been spent already. All but $85 million of it, according to a House Appropriations spokesman.

yup, the counter drug program has a lot of “discretionary spending” so it’s a good target for moving money. But it’s almost already gone.

So, the Pentagon will have to get approval from Congress to take more than $2 billion from somewhere else, then put it into the counterdrug fund, then have it repurposed for the border wall.

"The Department would need to reprogram additional funding into the account to reach the up to $2.5 billion that may be required for border security support," Said DoD spokesman Christopher Sherwood said, according to Roll Call.

So this could go two ways, the pentagon can go to congress and ask for additional funding for the counter drug program. And transfer it to the border project.

or find another place to get it from......

Trump does have other options, including potentially redirecting more money that was previously allocated for military construction projects.

https://www.theblaze.com/news/large-portion-of-money-trump-wants-for-the-wall-has-already-been-spent

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2 hours ago, windowasher said:

Why don't they just start the Triangle Trade again?  Seemed to work well enough for the slavers and rum trade, and Ollie North and the boys financed wars in Central and South America.with it

we'd need a different trade triangle then, I don't think anyone would get away with the old one...

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needed to be nicer
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