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The President's national emergency still is short on details on what money gets diverted to a border wall jamiedupree.blog.ajc.com/2019/02/18/tru…
The Pentagon is facing a major fiscal squeeze as the President looks to move $3.6 billion in military construction money to a border wall 2/
The entire military construction budget for 2019 is $10.3 billion - so, $3.6 billion is over one-third of that. That will hit a lot of home-state military base projects. 3/
Along with that, the military needs money for major repairs at two bases which were badly damaged by hurricanes in 2018 4/
The Marines say they need about $3.5 billion for work at Camp Lejeune. The Air Force needs billions for Tyndall Air Force Base. 5/
The military already faces a big backlog of work on substandard military housing as well. It's all a big squeeze on military construction dollars 6/ jamiedupree.blog.ajc.com/2019/02/18/tru… 
