{"id":116315,"date":"2021-06-11T21:18:19","date_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/?p=116315"},"modified":"2021-06-11T21:18:19","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T21:18:19","slug":"biden-administration-reallocates-2-2-billion-in-trump-border-wall-funds-to-military-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fin2me.com\/politics\/biden-administration-reallocates-2-2-billion-in-trump-border-wall-funds-to-military-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Biden administration reallocates $2.2 billion in Trump border wall funds to military projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Biden administration said Friday it will divert $2.2 billion previously allocated\u00a0for former President Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall to military projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Defense said that the funding would go towards\u00a066 projects in 11 States, 3 territories, and 16 countries.<\/p>\n<p>Some of the projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$10 million for the Missile Field Expansion at Fort Greely in Alaska, which is part of America&#8217;s\u00a0defense\u00a0against North Korean ballistic missiles. It was due for an expansion to add two missile interceptors.<\/li>\n<li>More than $25 million for the 2nd Radio Battalion Complex in North Carolina. Congress provided funds for the new complex to co-locate two battalions, improve\u00a0capabilities\u00a0and efficiencies in training for combat readiness, and meet the growing threat of cyber warfare.<\/li>\n<li>$79 million for Spangdahlem Elementary School for U.S. Military Children in Germany, which currently supports over 600 military children and\u00a0lacks proper air conditioning, plumbing, and security systems.<\/li>\n<li>More than $25 million for the Fire\/Crash Rescue Station at Tyndall Air Force Base in Florida, which is designed to support up to 15 fire-fighting vehicles and provide space for physical fitness, training, and living quarters for military personnel.<\/li>\n<li>More than $9 million for a Small Arms Range in Indiana, which is needed to enhance readiness of the Air Guard unit through marksmanship training.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>President Joe Biden signed an executive order on Inauguration Day to halt construction of the border wall, and ordered funding for it to be redistributed. Friday&#8217;s action is part of the executive order he signed in January.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made building a border wall a top priority of his administration, and diverted funding from several departments, including the Department of Defense, to fund construction of the barrier.<\/p>\n<p>Trump, in one of his last trips as president, went to the border, where he celebrated the completion of more than 400 miles of border wall being built. But the majority of the construction was on barriers that already existed. The Biden administration says only 52 miles of wall was built where no barrier previously existed. The Office of Management and Budget\u00a0said Friday that some segments of the wall cost \u201cAmerican taxpayers up to $46 million per mile.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Homeland Security said that the Trump administration had\u00a0planned to spend over $15 billion on wall construction, and diverted over $10 billion of those funds from military projects and other sources.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Biden administration also called on Congress to cancel border wall funds that remain at the end of the year so it can be used for other resources like \u201ceffective border management measures like enhanced technology between points of entry and improved infrastructure at Land Ports of Entry,\u201d the OMB said.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Congress passed a bipartisan government funding package that included $1.4 billion for the border wall. The Department of Homeland Security is required by law to use funds, but the administration said it will \u201cutilize all legal authorities to stop wall expansion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DHS also announced Friday it\u00a0will prioritize using the remaining funds for clean-up of construction sites previously funded by the Department of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Biden administration said it was using some border wall funds to repair the flood barrier system in the Rio Grande Valley and to address erosion caused by wall construction in San Diego.<\/p>\n<p><em>Contributing:\u00a0Rafael Carranza, Arizona Republic<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Reach Rebecca Morin at Twitter @RebeccaMorin_<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/uxstatic\/usatoday\/usat-web-static-5018.1.0\/images\/sprites\/icon_close.png\"><\/p>\n<p>        The White House sought to clarify comments made by Vice President Kamala Harris Monday during her first trip abroad when she warned those considering fleeing their homes in Guatemala for the U.S. &quot;Do not come.&quot; (June 8)<\/p>\n<p>    <span>AP Domestic<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2021\/06\/11\/joe-biden-administration-redirects-donald-trumps-border-wall-funds\/7655770002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON\u00a0\u2013\u00a0The Biden administration said Friday it will divert $2.2 billion previously allocated\u00a0for former President Donald Trump&#8217;s border wall to military projects.\u00a0 The Department of Defense [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":116314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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