Dem proposal to ban Pentagon funds for border wall survives House panel votes

Source: The Hill

By Rebecca Kheel - 06/13/19 06:36 AM EDT

The House Armed Services Committee early Thursday rejected Republican attempts to remove language from the annual defense policy bill aimed at blocking President Trump’s border wall. During its markup of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the committee rejected in party-line votes several amendments offered by Republicans related to the border.

“It is an unbelievable waste of resources to address this crisis to spend that money on a wall,” committee Chairman Adam Smith (D-Wash.) said. “Second, it’s [Department of Homeland Security], not [Department of Defense]. This money should not come out of the Department of Defense, as by the way, a lot of my Republican colleagues said when this first came up.”

The committee did adopt by voice vote an amendment from Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.) to prohibit defense funds from being used to house children forcibly separated from their parents.
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As it stands, the committee’s version of the NDAA would prohibit Pentagon funding from being used on the border wall, make changes to the emergency authority Trump invoked to dip into Pentagon coffers for the wall and modify the authority Trump has used to deploy U.S. troops to the border.
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