House Appropriators Say Modernization Funding Diverted for Border Wall No Longer Available

摘要

The House Appropriations Committee has determined that it is no longer possible to take back$6.3 billion in funding diverted from defense programs, including modernization, to help pay forformer President Donald Trump's ill-fated border wall with Mexico.A House Democratic aide on May 11th said that of the $9.9 billion diverted from appropriatedDoD funds to the border wall, $6.3 billion was funneled through the DoD counter-drug accountbefore being redirected to be used by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for the border wall.