Congressman Gonzalez Statement on Pentagon Funding Diverted for Border Wall

WASHINGTON – Today, Congressman Vicente Gonzalez (TX-15) issued a statement in response to reports that the Trump Administration is moving $7.2 billion in Pentagon funds for the border wall.

"The President's plan to weaken our military and siphon off counternarcotic funding to fulfill an egotistical campaign promise of building a border wall does nothing but waste taxpayer dollars and cripple other critical national security programs. The taxpayer dollars that this Administration plans to waste could have fixed the Flint water crisis 132 times and paid off school loan debt for roughly 241,600 students. We should be investing these funds into things that the American people need not an ineffective, useless border wall."