Originally published at: THE WALL: House Dems BEG Secretary Mattis to BAIL on $450m Border Wall Project | Sean Hannity
Democrats in the House of Representatives are urging Defense Secretary Jim Mattis to pull-the-plug on President Trump’s $450m border wall project; directly asking the Pentagon boss to abandon the military-funded barrier in Arizona.
Rep. Adam Smith sent a scathing letter to Mattis this week; calling the proposal “utterly irresponsible” and a move that would directly impact “military readiness and infrastructure.”
“It is utterly irresponsible and appalling that President Trump wants to take away funding for military readiness and infrastructure in order to spend it on his border wall,” Smith said in a statement. “We are trying to ensure that our men and women in uniform have the facilities and training they need to face serious dangers while defending our country. If Secretary Mattis follows through on this request, it would undermine those efforts.”
The proposal would build a 31-mile fence along a section of Air Force Base Barry M. Goldwater which sits on Arizona’s border with Mexico.
“We’re going to have our wall, and we’re going to get it very strongly. The military’s going to be building some of it,” Trump said earlier this year.
Read the full report at the Washington Examiner.
