Pentagon pulls funds for military schools, daycare to pay for Trump’s border wall.
Schools for the children of U.S. military members from Kentucky to Germany to Japan will be affected. A daycare center at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland - the home of Air Force One - will also have its funds diverted, the Pentagon said.
A Pentagon official said in a briefing that the department was given a "lawful order" by Trump to divert the funds. She said the Pentagon is working closely with Congress and its allies abroad to find funding to replace money diverted for the wall, but that there are not any guarantees that those funds will come.
Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said the Trump administration's reallocation of funds was a "slap in the face" to members of the U.S. military. The U.S. Military Academy at West Point in Schumer's state is the most expensive project impacted in the United States with $95 million pulled from construction on its engineering center.
The wall was a central promise of Trump's 2016 campaign and remains central to his immigration policies as he aims for re-election in 2020.
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