Trump Plans to Unilaterally Shift Almost $7 Billion

President Trump “plans to use unilateral authority to spend more than $8 billion to construct physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border… a maneuver that risks provoking a lengthy legal battle over presidential powers,” Bloomberg reports.

“The president will invoke an emergency declaration to redirect $3.5 billion Congress approved for the Defense Department’s military construction budget, said another person familiar with the deliberations. Trump also will use his ordinary executive authority to reprogram $2.5 billion from the Defense Department’s drug interdiction efforts and $600 million from the Treasury department’s drug forfeiture program, said the person, who asked not to be identified to discuss plans ahead of announcement.”