Lawmakers Criticize $3.8 Billion Funding Shift to Support Southern Border Wall

Lawmakers Criticize $3.8 Billion Funding Shift to Support Southern Border Wall
Flood gates sit within the U.S.-Mexico border fence west of Naco, Arizona, on May 8, 2019. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times
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Top lawmakers have criticized the Trump administration after it announced it would shift nearly $4 billion from the military budget toward building some 177 miles of fencing across the U.S.-Mexico border, in efforts to address drug-smuggling activities.

The funding move was announced on Feb. 13 by the Department of Defense (DOD).

Isabel van Brugen
Isabel van Brugen
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Isabel van Brugen is an award-winning journalist. She holds a master's in newspaper journalism from City, University of London.
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