White House requests just $2B for border wall this year but will take $7.2B from military

Published February 10, 2020 4:51pm ET



The White House is poised to request billions of dollars less for southern border wall construction projects in this year’s budget compared to previous years, a senior Department of Homeland Security official confirmed.

President Trump will request Congress include $2 billion in its 2021 fiscal budget for an undisclosed amount of steel fence on the U.S.-Mexico border, down 60% from the $5 billion the White House sought ahead of fiscal 2020, the Wall Street Journal first reported. Trump also asked for $3.6 billion to repay the Pentagon for money taken from its accounts for the wall. When Congress only allocated $1.375 billion last year, Trump diverted a total of $6.7 billion in military and treasury funds to its border projects.

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