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riversedge

(69,727 posts)
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 06:03 PM Sep 2019

Air Force says Trump's border wall money grab will endanger national security

Source: dailykos





Friday September 13, 2019 · 10:15 AM CDT




Donald Trump’s border wall money grab from military construction projects is endangering schools on military bases, a power substation in Puerto Rico, and national security. NBC News has obtained an Air Force report on the risks coming from delaying 51 projects around the world, and the details are scary.

Eielson Air Force Base in Alaska could be rendered completely unusable by a boiler failure that would force an evacuation and leave the base frozen and damaged.

Guam was supposed to get a facility to store more than $1 billion in munitions. Now those munitions won’t get their storage facility, which is … one way to disarm the U.S. military, I guess?

“If not funded,” the main gate at Incirlik Air Base in Turkey, which indeed will not be funded thanks to Trump’s wall, “remains vulnerable to hostile penetration in the midst of contingency operations and an increased terrorist threat.”

This part is interesting, too: “One of the major areas affected were military construction projects supporting the European Defense Initiative (EDI), 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 EDI cannot support the deployment of US airmen or assets.”.....................

Read more: https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/9/13/1885256/-Air-Force-says-Trump-s-border-wall-money-grab-will-endanger-national-security







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US President Donald Trump speaks during his visit to US Border Patrol McAllen Station in McAllen, Texas, on January 10, 2019. - Trump travels to the US-Mexico border as part of his all-out offensive to build a wall, a day after he stormed out of negotiations when Democratic opponents refused to agree to fund the project in exchange for an end to a painful government shutdown. (Photo by Jim WATSON / AFP) (Photo credit should read JIM WATSON/AFP/Getty Images)
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pangaia

(24,324 posts)
1. Putin's lap dog... DUH!! No news there...
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 06:14 PM
Sep 2019


DEMOCRATIC candidates, PLEASE get on this and hold press conferences, or something,....

tell the dumb fucks who live in america and don;t know where their asshole is......

cstanleytech

(26,082 posts)
10. Who would win in celebrity death match?
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 11:56 PM
Sep 2019

Donald Trump aka Putin's lapdog or Moscow Mitch aka Putin's Bitch?

keithbvadu2

(36,369 posts)
2. It was Trump's own republicans who refused him the money back in Dec. Donald even told them how t
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 06:19 PM
Sep 2019

It was Trump's own republicans who refused him the money back in Dec.

Donald even told them how to do it with the nuclear option.

ffr

(22,649 posts)
3. Is this the USAF or Russian AF? Because I'm wondering if this is the one that paid Turnberry tRump
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 06:31 PM
Sep 2019

money and shipped personnel to reward him without speaking out. Seems like someone in the USAF would have the balls to stand up for what is right.

Oh, but now they're standing up for what is right? Make it a trend Armed Forces!!!

B Stieg

(2,410 posts)
5. And we need bases in Alaska and beyond...
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 08:07 PM
Sep 2019

as the competition for dominance with Russia has spread to the thawing pole!

chowder66

(9,011 posts)
9. Hey Air Force, maybe stop misappropriating our tax dollars to his businesses rewarding him for bad
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 09:01 PM
Sep 2019

behavior!

cstanleytech

(26,082 posts)
11. Our guys in the House should "NOT" authorize any money to replace what was stolen either in any
Fri Sep 13, 2019, 11:59 PM
Sep 2019

budget for as long as Trump is President.
Edit: That also includes any increase requests where they could shift the money for those projects.

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