VIRGINIA BEACH – Congresswoman Elaine Luria (VA-02) today voiced strong opposition to the Trump administration’s plan to divert $3.6 billion in military construction funds, including by taking away more than $77 million in funding from four projects in the Hampton Roads region.
“Pulling funding from the military makes our nation less safe and more vulnerable,” Congresswoman Luria said. “Peak military readiness, critical modernization projects, and disaster recovery are top national security priorities in Hampton Roads and beyond. The administration should protect initiatives that keep Virginia and America safe.”
According to Department of Defense communications to Senators Tim Kaine and Mark Warner, the Trump administration plans to take away funding from several Virginia military construction projects in the Hampton Roads region.
At Joint Base Langley-Eustis, a cyber operations facility is slated to lose $10 million, and a Naval Station Norfolk project to replace a hazardous materials warehouse stands to lose $18.5 million; additionally, a Navy Ships Maintenance Facility in Portsmouth will lose $26.1 million and a project to replace a hazardous materials warehouse in Portsmouth $22.5 million, the Senators said.
Since initial plans were revealed earlier this year, Congresswoman Luria has been outspoken in rejecting the Trump administration’s plan to move military funding toward wall construction at the Southern Border. A 20-year Navy veteran, she has signed on to legislation that would limit the Executive Branch’s ability to make uniliteral funding decisions like this one.
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No body but the government would spend 40 million on 2 warehouses. I worked around the military for years, and the waste there is unbelievable.
How about instead of condemning. consider working with the president to fix the crisis?
FWIW, if Democrats though illegals would vote Republican, you’s be able to see the wall from the space station.
Right on!! Loved that space station analogy.
Re: Ray Otton, you suggested ” consider working with the president to fix the crisis.” Where have you been? From the day Donald Trump came down the escalator at Trump Plaza to throw his hat in the ring, Donald Trump has made it perfectly clear that he alone can fix it! Trump has publicly and fiercely declared this in many places and on many occasions. Do you not believe him?
Let’s see, first the Dems declared there was no border crisis, so no need for a wall.
Then, after all the videos started to show up, they declared there was a border crisis………………………and it was Mr. Trumps fault.
So, yeah, I stand by my comment.
The President has shown a willingness to work across the aisles on many many issues, from the budget to the wall to immigration., ad infinitum.
To deny that is to deny reality.
But the denial of reality is a %100 lefty affliction.
The construction funding would not have been used for the wall if the services had not given it up as offsets for higher priority funding. This happens every budget cycle. Securing the border is a high priority for me and should be for congress.