The Trump administration is discussing diverting more money from the Pentagon budget to constructing the border wall, a US official familiar with funding of the project told CNN
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The move comes after the administration has already moved $3.6 billion of military construction funds towards President Donald Trump's trademark project following his failed attempts to secure congressional funding. Not only will the Pentagon back the project, the Interior Department announced Wednesday that it will soon transfer 560 acres along the US-Mexico border to the Army to allow for border wall construction.Officials are also discussing how to replenish that $3.
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