{"id":2244,"date":"2020-02-22T14:16:42","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2020-02-22T14:16:42","modified_gmt":"2020-02-22T14:16:42","slug":"trump-will-raid-pentagons-war-on-terror-slush-fund-to-build-his-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=2244","title":{"rendered":"Trump Will Raid Pentagon&#8217;s War on Terror Slush Fund To Build His Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\n\n&#8220;As part of an overall plan to divert $3.8 billion from the Pentagon to pay for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, President Donald Trump is planning to drain about $1.6 billion from the slush fund that pays for much of America&#8217;s post-9\/11 wars in the Middle East.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Foreign<\/em>&nbsp;<em>Policy&#8217;<\/em>s Lara Seligman&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/laraseligman\/status\/1228013198655283200\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reports<\/a>&nbsp;that the White House sent a memo to Congress on Thursday outlining plans to redirect military spending for the border wall. The administration plans to move $2.2 billion originally earmarked for purchasing vehicles, ships, and aircraft into an anti-drug trafficking program that has already been tapped to provide for wall construction costs. The other $1.6 billion in border wall funding will come from the budget used to pay for America&#8217;s foreign wars&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-wordpress wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-reason-com\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"F4BQ5COJQU\"><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/02\/13\/trump-will-raid-pentagons-war-on-terror-slush-fund-to-build-his-border-wall\/\">Trump Will Raid Pentagon&#8217;s War on Terror Slush Fund To Build His Border Wall<\/a><\/blockquote><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Trump Will Raid Pentagon&#039;s War on Terror Slush Fund To Build His Border Wall&#8221; &#8212; Reason.com\" src=\"https:\/\/reason.com\/2020\/02\/13\/trump-will-raid-pentagons-war-on-terror-slush-fund-to-build-his-border-wall\/embed\/#?secret=oSeHQkELds#?secret=F4BQ5COJQU\" data-secret=\"F4BQ5COJQU\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;As part of an overall plan to divert $3.8 billion from the Pentagon to pay for the construction of a wall on the border with Mexico, President Donald Trump is planning to drain about $1.6 billion from the slush fund that pays for much of America&#8217;s post-9\/11 wars in the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign Policy&#8217;s Lara Seligman reports that the White House sent a memo to Congress on Thursday outlining plans to redirect military spending for the border wall. The administration plans to move $2.2 billion originally earmarked for purchasing vehicles, ships, and aircraft into an anti-drug trafficking program that has already been tapped to provide for wall construction costs. The other $1.6 billion in border wall funding will come from the budget used to pay for America&#8217;s foreign wars&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[433,214,221,469,335,170,434],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-border-wall","tag-costs","tag-donald-trump","tag-money","tag-pentagon","tag-trump","tag-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}