The administration has not provided a list of affected projects.
By Erica Werner and Erica Werner Congressional reporter focusing on economic policy Email Bio Follow Seung Min Kim Seung Min Kim White House reporter Email Bio Follow March 7 at 8:24 PM The White House is privately ramping up pressure on undecided Republicans to limit defections ahead of the Senate vote on President Trump’s emergency declaration — even as the administration has yet to tell Congress which military projects would be tapped to pay for Trump’s border wall.
“I’m not aware that anybody has seen it yet,” said Sen. John Thune , the No. 2 Senate Republican, referring to a list of military projects. “I think there would be a lot of our members who will be concerned about voting on this before they’ve seen that.” In addition to those four, other GOP senators have expressed serious reservations about supporting the declaration. Many view it as an unprecedented intrusion into their constitutional authority over federal spending, with potential to set a dangerous precedent for future Democratic presidents.
Meanwhile, senators from both parties continued to press administration officials on how the emergency declaration and reallocation of money would be done. Sen. Brian Schatz — Boozman’s counterpart on the military construction spending panel who also attended the briefing — said the Pentagon has assured him it will “not allow political side deals to be cut” to protect certain military projects.
The $3.6 billion that would come from military construction accounts made available by Trump’s Feb. 15 national emergency declaration is the last of several accounts the administration plans to tap to build many miles of new fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. Defense Department officials have said that no military construction project would be “canceled,” but only delayed until money to pay for them can be “back-filled” via Trump’s 2020 budget request, which is due next week.
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