Pentagon Gives $976 Million In Contracts For Border Wall Construction

TOPSHOT - A Border Patrol officer sits inside his car as he guards the US/Mexico border fence, in Nogales, Arizona, on February 9, 2019. (Photo by Ariana Drehsler / AFP) (Photo credit should read ARIANA DREHSL... TOPSHOT - A Border Patrol officer sits inside his car as he guards the US/Mexico border fence, in Nogales, Arizona, on February 9, 2019. (Photo by Ariana Drehsler / AFP) (Photo credit should read ARIANA DREHSLER/AFP/Getty Images) MORE LESS
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The Pentagon awarded nearly $1 billion in military contracts to two companies to complete border wall construction projects in Texas and Arizona, the Department of Defense announced Tuesday. 

One $789 million contract was given to a company in Galveston, Texas for “border replacement wall construction” near El Paso, Texas. Another $187 million contract was given to Barnard Construction Company to “design-bid-build construction project for primary pedestrian wall replacement” in Arizona. The Pentagon described the projects as part of the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to bar “drug-smuggling corridors.”

The Pentagon is able to sidestep Congress in awarding these contracts because of President Trump’s national emergency declaration, which he made in order to secure funding for his border wall pet project.

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  1. Yeah gotta stop those “drugs” from coming in, with a fence… even though they come through via ports or tunnels or air.

  2. The Pentagon is able to sidestep Congress in awarding these contracts because of President Trump’s national emergency declaration, which he made in order to secure funding for his border wall pet project.

    Mitch McRuble has allowed the abomination to circumvent the constitution and has handed the power of the purse to the executive branch (as long as it’s in fascistgop hands). Just another example of the fascistgop’s theory of the ever expanding Urinary Executive.

  3. Avatar for jtx jtx says:

    What happened to the law suit?

  4. I hear ICE is planning to step up workplace raids.

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