National Guard chief: $3.8B DOD reprogramming will affect Army Guard

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The National Guard Bureau chief this month said he was not consulted on the $3.8 billion reprogramming action taken by the Defense Department to fund President Trump's border wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, and the transfer will impact the Army National Guard's domestic operations portfolio. "I was surprised that they took the money, and it's going to have a near-term materiel impact on our Air [National] Guard, for sure, and it will affect our commodities that we're going to have to deal with [in the] domestic operations portfolio in the Army Guard for sure, as well," Air Force Gen. Joseph Lengyel said during a March 3 House Appropriations defense subcommittee hearing.