The u.s. department of defense, the Pentagon, reshuffles a billion dollars in its budget for border security. It is equivalent to 6.5 billion crowns.
It informs the USA’s acting secretary of defense, Patrick Shanahan, on the night of Tuesday local time. It writes the news agency AP.
the Money will among other things finance the first almost 100 kilometers to the border with Mexico.
There is a five-meter-high fence, which should go along the border crossing at Yuma, Arizona and El Paso, Texas.
Shanahan has given to the head of the army corps of engineers the authority to plan and implement the construction.
Milliardbeløbet must also go to the construction of roads and lighting in these areas. In addition, the money will be used to slow down the narkosmuglingen at the border between Mexico and the UNITED states.
president of the UNITED states, Donald Trump, declared nødretstilstand the 15. February after months of budget negotiations in Congress.
Here one could not be agreed to find funding of the wall, as the president had required in order to sign a final agreement.
15. march signed Trump his first veto as president of the UNITED states to maintain nødretstilstanden at the border to Mexico, after Congress had recently voted to repeal it.
With nødretstilstanden has Trump been given extended powers. Among other things, that can be rearranged money from the Pentagon’s defense budget.
The acting defence minister, defending his decision with regard to the federal law.
– It gives the defense department the authority to construct roads and fences and install lights to block narkosmuglernes corridors of the USA’s international borders, said Shanahan in a message.
