Al Kipone schreef op 5 september 2019 20:47:
Last night, the Pentagon finally released to the public a list of the 127 construction projects that stand to lose funding to free up $3.6 billion for 175 miles of fencing and other barriers on the southern border. These are spread across 23 states, three U.S. territories and 20 countries. Here are some of the most notable projects that Trump is raiding:
1) Puerto Rico will lose out on more than $400 million of planned projects.
The Pentagon is defunding 13 projects at military installations in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, 10 of which were related to recovery from Hurricane Maria. Among them is the rehabilitation of Camp Santiago, a training facility operated by the Puerto Rico National Guard.
Guam, another U.S. territory, will lose a quarter of a billion dollars in construction projects. North Korea threatened to strike the Pacific island in 2017.
2) Another $770 million is being diverted from projects that have been approved to help American allies deter attacks from a revanchist Russia.
This is the bulwark of the European Deterrence Initiative, which was created after Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine and annexed Crimea. Along with Trump’s push to get Russia back in the G-7, this is the latest illustration of the president projecting weakness in the face of Kremlin bellicosity.
3) Nine of the projects on the list involve renovating or replacing schools for the children of U.S. troops.
4) Utah will lose $54 million. This is striking because both of the state’s conservative senators, Mike Lee and Mitt Romney, voted against Trump’s border emergency in March and supported the resolution of disapproval. Is it retaliation?
www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost...(Noot: Staten die getroffen worden door deze diefstal zijn GOP controlled, met Senatoren die het toch al moeilijk hebben tegenover de Democratische tegenkandidaten. Briljante zet :-) )