In a slap in the face to all veterans, Trump is misusing the National Emergency Act to effectively steal $3.6 billion from military projects to fund additions to the border wall. The new $3.6 billion theft comes on top of $2.5 billion in military funding that Trump already stripped from the DOD budget to put razor wire on existing fences and create a series of already-destroyed demonstration walls in the desert.
But the new funding won't actually go to build a wall. The only thing we'll get is 175 miles of fencing-- far short of the 500 miles he promised before the 2020 election. Trump has already lied about what has already been built. Not one foot of new wall has been constructed-- all we've gotten is a new barricade that replaced a barrier that was already in place. And much of the newly-funded fencing will only be a replacement of existing barriers.
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