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Mexico is supposed to pay for. he's got 1.375 billi$1.375 bille appropriations bill. none of it is supposed to be for the wall. it's explicit. he's going to try to take 3.6 billion for military construction. another $2.5 billion from the drug interdiction program. then he's going to swipe $600 million from the treasury department drug forfeitture fund. are we to believe in the republican white house, defense department money doesn't matter? whatever that money was intended for isn't important? he's going to build a wall and put his name on it? >> it's another use of congress' power. congress d...

Emergency. and it's a great thing to do. because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people and it's unacceptable. it's very simple. we want to stop drugs from coming into our country. we want to stop criminals and gangs. >> so the big question, where does this $8 billion actually come from? $1.3 billion is included in the government funding bill passed yesterday but the president can't use any of that money for a concrete wall. it can be used for fencing, steel slates, but no concrete. $2.5 billion will be from the pentagon's drug interdiction program. $600 million fr...

Y -- give you an idea of what he's doing. $3.5 billion is the defense department's military construction budget. that requires an emergency declaration from the president. the other sources, $2.5 billion is the drug interdiction program. the president doesn't need to declare an emergency for that. $1.375 billion is inside the bill that's coming down from capitol hill. then there is an extraneous $600 million, the treasury department's forfeiture fund. that tells you where the money is coming from. we expect the president to sign off on this in the rose garden in a while. there is a lot of conc...

In this country. 2.5 billion will be allocated through the department of defense's drug interdiction program. 2.2 billion of that money will come from reprogrammed areas elsewhere in the dod budget. that could be a point of contention. $3.5 billion will come from the military construction budget. the white house considers the treasury money and money already in the dod's drug interdiction money that they can get easily. the reprogrammed money gets more dicey. the money from the military construction budget will no doubt invite a challenge from congress and most likely in the courts. you mentio...

The $600 million from treasury is the easy one. they can use it for anything they want. easy to get money from the drug interdiction program. moving some of that money may catch the eye of some folks in congress and may invite a legal challenge. then they absolutely believe that the emergency declaration and tapping into the military construction budget will invite a legal challenge and howls of protest from members of congress who want to see that money go to construction on military bases in their district. one thing that the white house is not going to touch. democrats made a big deal of th...