The Pentagon approves the money to the parts of the Trumps wall

The u.s. department of defense has said yes to adding a billion dollars, equivalent to sek 9.2 billion, of the Trump building walls. Ingenjörskåren has been commissioned to plan and execute the construction.

murfinansiering. Donald Trump has requested approximately $ 8 billion to the project (74 billion), which is likely not enough for a wall or barrier along all of the elements that currently lack this.

the Money the Pentagon now been approved will be enough to ”clog” eleven ”smugglingskorridorer” along the approximately nine-mile border at Yuma, Arizona, and El Paso, Texas with a six-meter high barrier, writing the acting the minister of defence, Patrick Shanahan in a notification to the head of the department of homeland security Kirstjen Nielsen.

When Trump did not get congress to approve money to the wall as a part of the state budget, he took to his office's own legislative powers: He declared a state of national emergency at the border, which would make it possible to move money from the military to the construction.

Of the $ 8 billion the White house wants to use to murbygget of over 6 billion supposed to come from the department of defense, of which 2.5 billion is taken from the antidrogprogram and 3.5 billion from military construction projects.

Congress hammered through a resolution that annulled the state of emergency. The president responded with a veto against the resolution, which was the first time during his term of office he has used that weapon.

Congress has a chance to get the last word by voting down the president's veto. Such a vote is planned. The problem is that it required a two-thirds majority to succeed, and few believe that enough republicans will join.

If you assume that those who voted against the emergency is fixed, it would take further between 43 and 45 republicans in the house of representatives and 16 in the senate to Trump the veto shall be lifted.

Shanahans decision will still be challenged strongly by large sections of the congress, where the secretary of defense will actually come on Tuesday to answer questions in the house of representatives militärutskott.

Marine corps chief commander Robert Neller has warned that maintenance work has had to be shelved and russia, set in five countries on the basis of the wealth transfer to the Mexikogränsen. It is about both murpengar and that the soldiers moved there to reinforce the coverage.

Ten democratic senators in a number of committees have written a letter to Shanahan in which they ”vigorously” oppose the money to murbygget.