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WASHINGTON – Border construction near Yuma will receive almost $1.3 billion of the $3.6 billion the Defense Department said it will divert from planned military projects under the national border emergency declared in February by President Donald Trump.
Among the 127 Pentagon projects scheduled to lose funding this year for Trump's border construction push is a planned ground transport equipment building at Fort Huachuca. The Army base near Sierra Vista will lose $30 million that was budgeted for that project in fiscal 2019.
WASHINGTON – Arizona Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Martha McSally along with Representatives O'Halleran (AZ-01), Kirkpatrick (AZ-02), Gosar (AZ-04), Biggs (AZ-05), Schweikert (AZ-06), Gallego (AZ-07), Lesko (AZ-08), and Stanton (AZ-09) wrote to the Acting Secretary of the Air Force urging the Air Force to provide the Arizona Air National Guard's 161st Air Refueling Wing with additional aircraft to ensure military readiness.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – In the last month, Rep. Greg Stanton has taken action on a number of bipartisan initiatives to deliver results for veterans on suicide prevention, transition assistance and homelessness. On May 21, the House unanimously passed nine bills to support veterans-those measures will now move to the Senate.
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Concerned by reports that funding for military construction projects at Luke Air Force Base may be diverted to fund a border wall, Reps. Ruben Gallego, Tom O'Halleran, Ann Kirkpatrick and Greg Stanton sent a letter seeking answers to Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan.
The President's national emergency declaration to build a border wall set in motion efforts that could divert funds from FY 2019 military construction projects.
WASHINGTON – Arizona lawmakers vowed to fight the loss of any funding at Luke Air Force Base, where up to $40 million in construction projects could be tapped for border wall funding under President Donald Trump's national emergency declaration.
Pentagon officials have not said where they plan to get the $3.6 billion the president wants redirected toward the wall, but Luke projects are among the $8.2 billion in the military construction budget for this fiscal year, according to data released by the House Appropriations Committee.
LITCHFIELD PARK, AZ -- Phoenix Congressman Greg Stanton says the nation is in uncharted territory as President Trump attempts an end run around Congress to fund a border wall.
After signing a spending bill that included no money for the wall, President Trump declared a national emergency. By doing so, he now has access to $21 billion in military construction funds.
?PHOENIX – The President's national emergency declaration to build a border wall could have a significant negative impact on Arizona's Luke Air Force Base, jeopardizing $40 million in construction projects slated to support the base's F-35 fighter program.
The Administration's plan calls for diverting funds from FY 2019 military construction projects "under a little-known statute that allows the defense secretary to undertake military construction projects 'not otherwise authorized by law' when they are in support of troops deployed in a national emergency."