Pentagon Diverts Funds from Troops to Trump’s Border Wall
Germany schools, Navy clinics, and Air Force facilities lose funding to erect 30-foot fence at Barry Goldwater Range in Arizona
WASHINGTON — The Pentagon is redirecting $200 million from dozens of military construction projects—including service member barracks, a school in Germany, and a training facility in Mississippi—to build 20 miles of new border wall in the Arizona desert, according to documents submitted to Senator John Boozman (R-AR), chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on military construction.
The funding will support the installation of a 30-foot permanent steel barrier at the Barry M. Goldwater Range, a remote military testing site along the U.S.-Mexico border. In a letter to Senate appropriators, the Department of Defense said the new infrastructure is “necessary to obtain full operational control of the border.”