Pentagon redirects funds for border wall

U.S. Defence Secretary Mark Esper has approved the use of $3.6 billion in funding from military construction projects to build new sections of President Donald Trump’s wall along the Mexican border


Section of new steel bollard wall near San Luis, Arizona, unveiled by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in August 2019. About 100km of new wall has been built since 2017


NEW PROJECTS: $3.6 billion will pay to build or replace 280km of barrier. Funds redirected from 127 military construction projects in U.S. and overseas

San Diego $124m

El Centro $306m

Yuma $1,262m

El Paso $640m

Laredo $1,268m

CALIFORNIA
ARIZONA
UNITED STATES
NEW MEXICO
MEXICO
TEXAS
Rio Grande

Existing barrier

200km 125 miles


FUNDING SOURCES: President Trump has identified $8.1bn for wall projects 

Approved by Congress* $1.4bn

Military construction projects $3.6bn

Defence Department counterdrug activities $2.5bn

Treasury Department asset forfeiture fund $0.6 bn
  

*White House originally requested $5.7 billion


Sources: Associated Press, CBP, U.S. Department of Defence 
Picture: Twitter 
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