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Mar. 26, 2019 | 11:12 AM

Pentagon authorizes $1B for Trump's border wall

In this file photo taken on March 19, 2019 Border fencing is pictured on the US-Mexican border in Anapra, New Mexico, under a full moon. / AFP / Paul Ratje

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Summary

Acting Pentagon chief Patrick Shanahan has authorized $1 billion to build part of the wall sought by Donald Trump along the U.S.-Mexico border, the first funds designated for the project under the president's emergency declaration.

The Department of Homeland Security asked the Pentagon to build 92 kilometers of 5.5-meter fencing, construct and improve roads, and install lighting to support Trump's emergency declaration.

The White House has laid out an ambitious 2020 budget proposal which contains $8.6 billion in new wall funding, above the $5.7 billion Trump sought for this year.

The White House has signaled it will seek to repurpose some $6 billion from military funds, without specifying which Pentagon programs would be slashed.