The Pentagon awards nearly $1 billion in contracts to build President Trump's border wall
A $789 million contract was awarded to the Texas-based company SLSCO Ltd. for the construction of border wall in Santa Teresa, New Mexico which is located in the El Paso sector of the border. A second $187 million contract was awarded to the Montana-based Barnard Construction Company for work in Yuma, Arizona. The contracts were awarded by the US Army Corps of Engineers.Lt. Col.
These are the first border wall contracts to use Pentagon funds that the Trump administration had repurposed from other Defense Department accounts to support the border wall. CNN previously reported that the contract award was expected as early as Tuesday.The funds for the contracts are to come from the $1 billion that was recently reprogrammed from Army personnel accounts into the 284 counter-drug account that authorizes border barrier construction.
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