this is not the president can use an awful lot of money to start building new wall immediately. it s a political sleight-of-hand going on. a lot of, hey, look at this over here! don t look at this over here! this being the emergency declaration being tied up in court. meantime, this is actually $1.37 billion of the president got from congress that he could immediately used to start building wall. no emergency declaration needed for that. no emergency declaration needed for $601 million in the treasury forfeiture fund that he can get his hands on. and no emergency declaration needed for money that is already in the department of defense s so-called section 284 drug interdiction fund. there s also no emergency declaration needed for reprogramming about $2.2 billion into that dod budget for the drug interdiction. although that may start to raise a little bit of opposition in
president trump to court today. we ll be joined by at least a dozen states. the separation of powers being violated, we will go out there and make sure that donald trump cannot steal money from the states and the people who need them since we pay the taxpayer dollars to washington, d.c., to get those services. more than half of the $8 billion the white house identified to build the border wall does not depend on the emergency declaration. the $1.37 billion from congress can be used immediately, as can the $601 million from a treasury forfeiture fund and money already in dod s counter drug fund. reprogramming $2.2 billion in the dod budget into that counter drug fund will take a little longer. the only thing that requires the emergency declaration is shifting $3.6 billion in the military construction budget to build the wall. white house officials say president trump is on solid legal ground to do that.
we take them out by the thousands. and they are monsters. do you have any questions? mr. president, a lot of the money are you saying i was prepared? with the microphone. people don t like saying that. you are prepared for questions. i m always prepared. a lot of money is money being reprogrammed in the d.o.d. budget. how can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed to a wall will take away from other technology and other renovations and construction that is desperately needed in our military? we have certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals and the discretion of the military.
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 mentioned the aclu. that s why the president is making this emergency declaration all about national security and fighting crime. listen here. what we really want to do is simple. it s not like it s complicated. it s very simple. we want to stop drugs from coming into our country.
thousands. they re out of this country. we take them out by the thousands. they are monsters. okay. do you have any questions? yeah. john, go ahead. you were prepared. mr. president, a lot of the money you re saying i was prepared? with the microphone. i thought i was prepared. a lot of the money that goes to your $8 billion is money that s being reprogrammed in the d.o.d. budget. how can you guarantee to military families and to our men and women of the military that none of the money that would be reprogrammed to a wall would take away from other technology, other renovations, construction that s desperately needed in our military? john, we had certain funds that are being used at the discretion of generals, at the