{"id":1006308,"date":"2019-09-05T16:35:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/?p=1006308"},"modified":"2019-09-05T18:06:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T18:06:37","slug":"in-the-battlegrounds-trump-breaks-promise-to-have-mexico-pay-for-the-wall-drains-funding-from-military","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/in-the-battlegrounds-trump-breaks-promise-to-have-mexico-pay-for-the-wall-drains-funding-from-military\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Battlegrounds: Trump Breaks Promise to Have Mexico Pay for the Wall, Drains Funding From Military"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Instead of keeping his promise to have Mexico pay for the wall, Trump did exactly the opposite &#8211; and now he\u2019s draining funding from critical military military projects.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here\u2019s what voters are reading across the battlegrounds:\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>WISCONSIN: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/madison.com\/news\/local\/govt-and-politics\/truax-field-to-lose-million-for-border-wall-project\/article_21dead23-6aa1-5490-ba58-f5a18a3b525d.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wisconsin State Journal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, HEADLINE: Truax Field to lose $8 million for border wall project<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMadison\u2019s Truax Field will miss out on $8 million in allotted funds to help pay for border barriers as part of President Donald Trump\u2019s national emergency declaration.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cMeanwhile, Philip Shulman, a spokesman with the Democratic Party of Wisconsin, noted that Trump,<\/span><b> during a 2016 campaign stop in Wisconsin, pledged that a border wall would be paid for by Mexico.<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> \u2018It is an insult to those in uniform for the Commander-in-Chief to strip their funding and resources simply for his own vanity project. Keeping our country safe by ensuring the well-being of our armed forces should always come first.\u2019\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>NORTH CAROLINA: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsobserver.com\/news\/politics-government\/politics-columns-blogs\/under-the-dome\/article234717537.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The News and Observer<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, HEADLINE: Fort Bragg among N.C. military bases to take $80M hit to fund Trump\u2019s border wall<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cNorth Carolina\u2019s military bases will lose about $80 million in planned military construction, according to a list released by the Pentagon on Wednesday of projects across the United States losing funding to build President Donald Trump\u2019s border wall with Mexico.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe affected projects in North Carolina include $40 million for a new battalion complex and ambulatory care center at Camp Lejeune, a previously canceled $32.9 million elementary school at Fort Bragg, and a $6.4 million storage facility for the new KC-46 tanker at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>\u201cThat meant that bases hit hardest by last year\u2019s hurricane season, including Camp Lejeune in North Carolina and Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida were not spared<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. Tyndall will lose $17 million for a fire station.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>FLORIDA<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/politics-government\/article234714537.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Miami Herald<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, HEADLINE: Trump cuts $17 million project at Florida Air Force base to pay for border wall<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWhen President Donald Trump visited Tyndall Air Force Base in May, he promised it would be rebuilt \u201cbetter than ever\u201d after Hurricane Michael caused catastrophic damage.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cFour months later, the Department of Defense announced that a $17 million project to build a fire-rescue station at the base near Panama City will be put on hold to pay for portions of a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border, one of Trump\u2019s signature campaign promises.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIn addition to the Tyndall project, 10 military construction projects in Puerto Rico, totaling $402.5 million, will also be put on hold to pay for the wall, the largest number of projects cut among all U.S. states and territories.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>ARIZONA: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/politics\/arizona\/2019\/09\/04\/fort-huachuca-project-sierra-vista-scratched-trumps-border-efforts\/2209852001\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">AZ Central<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, HEADLINE: Fort Huachuca project delayed for Trump&#8217;s border efforts<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAn Army construction project at Arizona&#8217;s Fort Huachuca will be delayed so President Donald Trump can redirect the money to his efforts to install new barriers along the border with Mexico.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe $30 million project near Sierra Vista is among dozens formally scratched by the Pentagon on Wednesday to free about $3.6 billion in funds to help make good on Trump&#8217;s signature campaign promise to build a wall. The Fort Huachuca Ground Transport Equipment Building is intended to help store equipment.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAt the time, McSally said the Pentagon and White House assured her any funds used for construction of Trump&#8217;s long-sought border wall would not affect four key Arizona defense projects. Any other contracts that are impacted nationally will get all their funding in the next budget that begins next month, she said then.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>COLORADO: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2019\/09\/04\/colorado-military-peterson-trump-border-wall\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Denver Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, HEADLINE: Colorado space control project money going to Trump\u2019s border wall instead, senator says<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe Colorado project in question is construction of a space control facility at Peterson AFB in the Colorado Springs area. According to a description on the military\u2019s website, the $8 million was to \u2018construct a space control facility utilizing conventional design and construction methods.\u2019 The facility was to have a secure area, known as a SCIF in military parlance, that held 88 people.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><b>\u201cIf the space control facility is not built, the military wrote in its May 2017 proposal, there could be \u2018operational and strategic mission impacts due to inadequate facilities.\u2019\u201d<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cTrump\u2019s decision to move military construction dollars from the nation\u2019s bases to the southern border was initially blocked by Congress this spring. But Trump vetoed the legislation stopping the move, and Congress failed to override the veto. Within the Colorado delegation, all Democrats voted to block the president\u2019s transfer of money and all Republicans voted to allow it.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>SOUTH CAROLINA: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcclatchydc.com\/news\/nation-world\/national\/national-security\/article234694472.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">McClatchy<\/span><\/a><b>: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">HEADLINE: Trump taking $11 million from SC military project to fund border wall<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cSouth Carolina will lose nearly $11 million that had been designated for building a new fire station at a local military installation in order to help fund President Donald Trump\u2019s border wall.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cThe decision to target Laurel Bay at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, announced by the Pentagon on Wednesday, contradicts the assurances from South Carolina Republican elected officials earlier this year that federal funding for military construction projects in the state were not likely to get touched.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>VIRGINIA: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailypress.com\/military\/dp-nw-border-wall-military-20190904-wlstkyctyzdllhprjk5g2ivw2m-story.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Daily Press<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: HEADLINE: Trump\u2019s border wall funding plan hits military construction projects in Hampton Roads<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cAbout $77 million will be diverted from four military construction projects in Hampton Roads to help pay for President Donald Trump\u2019s border wall, Virginia\u2019s two senators said Wednesday.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cA cyber operations facility at Langley Air Force Base in Hampton will lose $10 million and face possible startup delays. Another $18.5 million will be siphoned away from a project to replace a hazardous materials warehouse at Naval Station Norfolk.\u201d<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Two projects in Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth also will see losses: $22.5 million for a hazardous materials warehouse and $26 million toward a Navy ship maintenance facility.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Instead of keeping his promise to have Mexico pay for the wall, Trump did exactly the opposite &#8211; and now he\u2019s draining funding from critical military military projects.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what voters are reading across the battlegrounds:\u00a0 WISCONSIN: Wisconsin State Journal, HEADLINE: Truax Field to lose $8 million for border wall project \u201cMadison\u2019s Truax Field will [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1006308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.0 - 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