The Pentagon is following through on the use of defense funds for President Donald Trump's border wall and a Defense Department document reveals which programs' fund will be reallocated, The Washington Post reported Sunday.
"The Department carefully selected sources for the reprogramming that are excess or early to need and will not adversely affect military preparedness," the document read, per the Post.
The Pentagon is pulling $1.5 billion from a nuclear ballistic missile program and plans for a surveillance and communications plane for airborne fighter jets, among others, but a breakdown of how much money from each program was not made available, according to the report.
"The funds were drawn from a variety of sources, including cost savings, programmatic changes, and revised requirements," the Pentagon wrote in a statement, per the Post.
Democratic senators issued a letter to the Pentagon in the wake of the reallocation and amid partisan challenges to presidential authority to do.
"We look forward to hearing your views on how you intend to repair the damaged relationship between the defense oversight committees and the Department," the letter co-signed by Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, D-Vt., Jack Reed, D-R.I., and Dick Durbin, D-Ill., read, according to the report.
A "slightly delayed" upgrade to the U.S. nuclear missile control center and Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) have allowed the Pentagon shift some funding to build the wall, according to the the document obtained by the Post.
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