[Politico via Right Scoop] Here’s some good news on Trump’s plans to build the wall. Apparently his administration is about to transfer a few billion from military projects toward the building of the wall:POLITICO ‐ The Trump administration is executing its plan this week to divert $3.6 billion from military construction projects to build the border wall, calling lawmakers whose districts will take a hit, according to multiple House aides.This stems from Trump’s emergency order earlier this year that allowed him to transfer funds toward the building of the wall. And it’s a welcome sight to see it finally going into action. From all the reporting we’ve seen recently, it sounds like Trump is really pushing hard to get much of the wall built before the election or thereabouts.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper called Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday to detail the cash grab, explaining that about half of the funding will come from military construction projects outside the United States and half will come from projects within the country.
The media keeps suggesting that no ’new’ wall is being built but that simply isn’t true, as we’ve pointed out. The Trump administration has to build the new border wall in place of the ineffective old wall, and that is indeed new wall. What hasn’t happened yet, but should happen soon according to reports, is the building of new border wall where there was no border wall before. And that is truly something to get excited about.
