Trump Stealing Money From Military For Wall Creates National Security Risks

Republicans are standing behind Trump and Stephen Miller's plan to STEAL MONEY FROM OUR MILITARY.  These funds being stolen will prevent new schools and houses that serve our military bases.  Beyond that heartless action, there's the matter of national security which our Air Force confirms is greatly harmed due to this.

Vote them out.  Republicans facing reelection in 2020 who voted in support of Trump's emergency declaration and whose state military projects are now being raided to build the wall: Tillis ($80M), McSally ($30M), McConnell ($62M), Gardner ($8M), Graham ($11M), Cornyn ($48M).

Trump's plan to pay for his proposed border wall by taking funds from more than four dozen Air Force military construction projects poses various national security risks for the U.S. armed forces, according to a report compiled by the U.S. Air Force.

Roughly $1.8 billion will be taken from projects in the continental United States and $1.8 billion from projects overseas. The $3.6 billion is expected to construct 175 miles of wall along the southern border.

The report, obtained by NBC News, details the importance of each of the 51 military projects chosen by the Trump administration to lose their funding.

For example:

In the Pacific region, money for a project to build facilities to store more than $1 billion in munitions at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam was diverted to the wall, endangering the largest munitions stockpile in the region, according to the report.

At Eielsen Air Force Base in Alaska, a boiler failure at a facility that provides all electrical power and steam heat for the base is "imminent," the report says. With temperatures as low as 65 degrees below zero, a failure would be devastating to facilities and the missions housed by them within hours." The base would be forced to evacuate within hours and once closed "would freeze and require millions of dollars of repair to return to usable conditions."

At Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, the entry-control point at the main gate is "degrading and not properly configured to provide proper protection for pedestrian and vehicle passage," the Air Force report says, adding there has been a "higher threat environment" there since the U.S. began operating in Syria.

And then there's Russia.  Of course.

One of the major areas affected were military construction projects supporting the European Defense Initiative, a program intended to increase U.S. military presence in Europe to deter Russian aggression. In some cases, without the construction projects, the bases identified as part of the initiative cannot support the deployment of U.S. airmen or assets.

Vote them out.  Republicans facing reelection in 2020 who voted in support of Trump's emergency declaration and whose state military projects are now being raided to build the wall: Tillis ($80M), McSally ($30M), McConnell ($62M), Gardner ($8M), Graham ($11M), Cornyn ($48M).

Source: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/military/trump-s-plan-pay-border-wall-air-force-funds-risks-n1054091