Trump’s perilous trade-off: Border wall vs. military construction spending

Published February 5, 2019 5:28pm ET



With the border wall set to be a major part of President Trump’s State of the Union address, there’s plenty of renewed speculation that he’ll take the opportunity to declare a national emergency, thus freeing up military funds to be used for the wall he promised voters.

But the military budget is no money tree.

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