Trump taking $3.8 billion from military to fund border wall

The Trump administration is transferring $3.8 billion in recently passed military funding to finance construction of the president's long-sought U.S.-Mexico border wall, angering not just Democrats but also GOP defence hawks. Thursday's move by the Pentagon would transfer money from National Guard units, aircraft procurement and shipbuilding to anti-drug accounts that can finance construction of new wall. The manoeuvr, announced in "reprogramming" documents provided to lawmakers, came in for har