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    10 U.S. Code 2808: Morning Defense Newsletter

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    The remainder will come from three separate “pots,” Mulvaney said: $600 million from Treasury Department drug-related forfeitures; $2.5 billion from a Defense Department drug prevention fund; and $3.6 billion, the largest chunk, from unobligated military construction funds, or MILCON. The White House intends to access the $3.6 billion in MILCON funds through a statute (10 U.S. Code 2808) that allows the president, in the event of a national emergency, to tap MILCON for a project that "requires use of the armed forces" and supports those forces. Legal challenges to the policy will almost certainly challenge any notion that building a border wall has much to do with the armed forces. Although the Trump administration has deployed thousands of active-duty troops to the border, critics have said that this was a symbolic action intended to create a sense of crisis prior to the midterm elections. Morning Defense newsletter Sign up for Morning Defense, a daily briefing on Washington's national security apparatus. Email Your email… Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sam Berger, a vice president with the liberal Center for American Progress and former Obama administration budget official, characterized the maneuver as “illegally raiding” the MILCON fund "because the Section 2808 authority requires that, in a declared national emergency, the money be used in support of the military. Here it’s the military supporting the building of the wall — it’s completely reversed.” Legal challenges will likely also question whether Trump's national emergency represents a genuine crisis. The number of Border Patrol arrests in fiscal year 2018 — a standard metric to measure illegal crossings — were below the yearly average over the previous decade.

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    The remainder will come from three separate “pots,” Mulvaney said: $600 million from Treasury Department drug-related forfeitures; $2.5 billion from a Defense Department drug prevention fund; and $3.6 billion, the largest chunk, from unobligated military construction funds, or MILCON. The White House intends to access the $3.6 billion in MILCON funds through a statute (10 U.S. Code 2808) that allows the president, in the event of a national emergency, to tap MILCON for a project that "requires use of the armed forces" and supports those forces. Legal challenges to the policy will almost certainly challenge any notion that building a border wall has much to do with the armed forces. Although the Trump administration has deployed thousands of active-duty troops to the border, critics have said that this was a symbolic action intended to create a sense of crisis prior to the midterm elections. Morning Defense newsletter Sign up for Morning Defense, a daily briefing on Washington's national security apparatus. Email Your email… Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sam Berger, a vice president with the liberal Center for American Progress and former Obama administration budget official, characterized the maneuver as “illegally raiding” the MILCON fund "because the Section 2808 authority requires that, in a declared national emergency, the money be used in support of the military. Here it’s the military supporting the building of the wall — it’s completely reversed.” Legal challenges will likely also question whether Trump's national emergency represents a genuine crisis. The number of Border Patrol arrests in fiscal year 2018 — a standard metric to measure illegal crossings — were below the yearly average over the previous decade.

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    The remainder will come from three separate “pots,” Mulvaney said: $600 million from Treasury Department drug-related forfeitures; $2.5 billion from a Defense Department drug prevention fund; and $3.6 billion, the largest chunk, from unobligated military construction funds, or MILCON. The White House intends to access the $3.6 billion in MILCON funds through a statute (10 U.S. Code 2808) that allows the president, in the event of a national emergency, to tap MILCON for a project that "requires use of the armed forces" and supports those forces. Legal challenges to the policy will almost certainly challenge any notion that building a border wall has much to do with the armed forces. Although the Trump administration has deployed thousands of active-duty troops to the border, critics have said that this was a symbolic action intended to create a sense of crisis prior to the midterm elections. Morning Defense newsletter Sign up for Morning Defense, a daily briefing on Washington's national security apparatus. Email Your email… Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sam Berger, a vice president with the liberal Center for American Progress and former Obama administration budget official, characterized the maneuver as “illegally raiding” the MILCON fund "because the Section 2808 authority requires that, in a declared national emergency, the money be used in support of the military. Here it’s the military supporting the building of the wall — it’s completely reversed.” Legal challenges will likely also question whether Trump's national emergency represents a genuine crisis. The number of Border Patrol arrests in fiscal year 2018 — a standard metric to measure illegal crossings — were below the yearly average over the previous decade.

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    The remainder will come from three separate “pots,” Mulvaney said: $600 million from Treasury Department drug-related forfeitures; $2.5 billion from a Defense Department drug prevention fund; and $3.6 billion, the largest chunk, from unobligated military construction funds, or MILCON. The White House intends to access the $3.6 billion in MILCON funds through a statute (10 U.S. Code 2808) that allows the president, in the event of a national emergency, to tap MILCON for a project that "requires use of the armed forces" and supports those forces. Legal challenges to the policy will almost certainly challenge any notion that building a border wall has much to do with the armed forces. Although the Trump administration has deployed thousands of active-duty troops to the border, critics have said that this was a symbolic action intended to create a sense of crisis prior to the midterm elections. Morning Defense newsletter Sign up for Morning Defense, a daily briefing on Washington's national security apparatus. Email Your email… Sign Up By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can unsubscribe at any time. Sam Berger, a vice president with the liberal Center for American Progress and former Obama administration budget official, characterized the maneuver as “illegally raiding” the MILCON fund "because the Section 2808 authority requires that, in a declared national emergency, the money be used in support of the military. Here it’s the military supporting the building of the wall — it’s completely reversed.” Legal challenges will likely also question whether Trump's national emergency represents a genuine crisis. The number of Border Patrol arrests in fiscal year 2018 — a standard metric to measure illegal crossings — were below the yearly average over the previous decade.

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    The remainder will come from

    three separate “pots,” Mulvaney


    said: $600 million from Treasury
    Department drug-related
    forfeitures; $2.5 billion from a
    Defense Department drug
    prevention fund; and $3.6 billion,
    the largest chunk, from
    unobligated military construction
    funds, or MILCON.

    The White House intends to access


    the $3.6 billion in MILCON funds
    through a statute (10 U.S. Code
    2808) that allows the president, in
    the event of a national emergency,
    to tap MILCON for a project that
    "requires use of the armed forces"
    and supports those forces.

    Legal challenges to the policy will


    almost certainly challenge any
    notion that building a border wall
    has much to do with the armed
    forces. Although the Trump
    administration has deployed
    thousands of active-duty troops to
    the border, critics have said that
    this was a symbolic action
    intended to create a sense of crisis
    prior to the midterm elections.
    Morning Defense newsletter
    Sign up for Morning Defense, a daily briefing on Washington's national security apparatus.
    EmailSign Up

    By signing up you agree to receive email newsletters or alerts from POLITICO. You can
    unsubscribe at any time.
    Sam Berger, a vice president with
    the liberal Center for American
    Progress and former Obama
    administration budget official,
    characterized the maneuver as
    “illegally raiding” the MILCON
    fund "because the Section 2808
    authority requires that, in a
    declared national emergency, the
    money be used in support of the
    military. Here it’s the military
    supporting the building of the wall
    — it’s completely reversed.”

    Legal challenges will likely also


    question whether Trump's
    national emergency represents a
    genuine crisis. The number of
    Border Patrol arrests in fiscal year
    2018 — a standard metric to
    measure illegal crossings — were
    below the yearly average over the
    previous decade.

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