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A supreme court decision to allow trump to access $2.5 billion in pentagon funds to build the border wall. good morning, colonel jack. >> good morning, jo. >> what part of the pentagon's budget will lose money and how will it affect the safety of troops? >> well, these come from military line items dealing with drug enforcement. about $2.5 billion. the government's argument is that these line items are for border security anyway when you're talking about drug enforcement and drug prevention, spreenltsing drugs from coming into the united states. the troops are just standing around looking at t...

Tie this all together, the president vis-a-vis the military giving them a lot more latitude on other things as well? >> clearly one of the narratives that's emerged from in the first year of the administration has been that the top officials trump feels most comfortable with are the military officers who for a various of reasons. but there are other elements like trump bumping up the pentagon's budget, $54 billion over congressional limits. trump delegating more operational control to mcnicholson and genuinely enjoying allowing the pentagon taking control. >> but the pentagon has a big issue w...

Countries, and temporarily shut down the u.s. refugee program. hawaii's lawsuit claims the order will harm the states muslim publishing. the department of housing and urban development for luminary budget documents reveal that the trump administration is thinking of slashing more than $6 billion from the agency. the possible cuts affect antipoverty programs and programs to help the elderly. lawmakers in the house have given the green light to a $578 billion spending bill. it would keep our military operating through september. that may set the stage for a massive hike in the pentagons budget. ...

The president promised to increase its military presence in asia. >> budget reductions will not come at the expense of that critical region. >> the cuts come elsewhere. sources say an entire brigade could be brought home from europe. there could be fewer, minimum, with more reductions likely. the obama administration and congress are cutting the pentagon's budget by half a trillion to potentially a full trillion. >> fiscal crisis could face the strategic shift that's taking place now. >> perhaps most controversial, the military will no longer prepare to fight two ground wars at once. critics s...