try to unlock $6 billion in federal funds from treasury forfeiture funds and the drug interdiction program and military construction funds. there are couple things congress can do to try to slow down or stop this from happening. someone to pass a resolution of disapproval that something house democrats have already said they plan to pursue. another is investigate. a house judiciary chairman jerry nadler, he s a democrat. he already said he is planning to hold hearings to look into the process that led up to this investigation. for example, special interest groups can challenge the coons substitutionality and land owners who hold private property allothing border are expected to try to stop the government from using eminent domain to seize their land when they need to build the border wall. the trump administration is facing a number of road blocks
president is creating money, reallocating money that s been appropriated by congress and citing federal law that enables him to do this, so he couldn t get congress to specifically appropriate funds for this purpose but he s not printing money. he s taking money that congress has appropriated and repurposing it. eric: sorry to interrupt but it is obligated. you have money for military installations, the treasury forfeiture funds. he s shifting it to something else. the treasury funds are not obligated. the treasury funds are unobligated and allow the secretary of the treasury to reallocate funds. then the drug program to prevent drug smuggling coming in. with respect $3.6 million for construction project, you are
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 from the treasury forfeiture funds and $3.6 billion from the department of defense s construction budget. nancy pelosi says, quote,
going to support the national emergency declaration. the president plans to use executive orders to collect $8 billion for wall funding. $1.375 billion is already in the spending bill he will sign later this morning. $3.5 billion will be diverted from military construction funds. $2.5 billion from pentagon counter-narcotics funds. 600 million from treasury forfeiture funds. some call it inappropriate. others save it is a slippery slope that may come back to haunt the party. i continue to believe that this is not what the national emergency act was intended to be used for. it was contemplated for a means to responding to a catastrophic event on our country or a major
3.5 billion will be taken from military construction funds, 2.5 billion from pentagon counter factor funds and 600 million from treasury forfeiture funds. many senate republicans appear to be stunned by the president s decision to use his emergency powers to try and build a wall. some call it inappropriate, others say it s a slippery slope that may come back to haunt the party. i continue to believe that this is not what the national emergencies act was intended to be used for. it was contemplated as a means for responding to a catastrophic event like an attack on our country a major natural disaster. what about if somebody else thinks that climate change is the national emergency, then what will they do and how far will they go? house speaker nancy pelosi says democrats will fight the president, possibly with legal action over the declaration of a national emergency to get his money for the border wall.