Source: https://usanetwork.info/2019/02/02/top-us-defense-official-testifies-that-president-trump/
Timestamp: 2019-04-22 07:00:27
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(VIDEO) Top US Defense Official testifies that President Trump does NOT need Congress nor a National Emergency to build a border wall - USA Network
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President Trump can assemble a fringe divider utilizing the United States military to stop mass illicit movement and medication dealing without subsidizing endorsement from Congress and without proclaiming a national crisis.
Amid a House Armed Services Committee hearing on Tuesday, Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood affirmed to Rep. Mo Brooks (R-AL) that Trump does not require Congress or a national crisis affirmation to fabricate a divider along the U.S.- Mexico fringe.
Rivulets: I need to guide your regard for 10 United States Code § 284 which approves President Trump to convey the United States military toward the southern outskirt to assemble wall and to complete a great deal of different things, and for clearness, on the off chance that you find it in the lexicon the word fence incorporates the word boundary and the word hindrance incorporates dividers made of a wide range of materials.
So that having been stated, I can’t help thinking that 10 U.S. Code § 284 can be utilized by the President of the United States to guide the United States military to assemble a divider. Presently starting today, you’ve referenced military powers along the southern outskirt, have any of them been conveyed in accordance with 10 U.S.C. § 284?
ROOD: Congressman, I don’t trust any of our powers have been sent in accordance with 10 U.S.C. § 284. You are right, be that as it may, that that utilization of power would approve the secretary of safeguard to erect obstructions, streets, fencing, those kinds of materials to upset medication pirating.
Creeks: Does 10 U.S.C. § 284 as you comprehend it, require the statement of a national crisis before it is executed?
Creeks: It doesn’t?
Streams: Has President Trump, as far as anyone is concerned, at any point utilized 10 U.S.C § 284 to guide the military to assemble the divider that is important for outskirt security?
ROOD: No, not as far as anyone is concerned, Congressman.
Rivulets: If President Trump were to coordinate the Pentagon and the United States military in accordance with 10 U.S.C § 284 to assemble such obstructions as are important to anchor our southern outskirt from medication dealing and universal wrongdoing cartels would the United States military comply with that arrange?
ROOD: If we judge it to be a legitimate request, yes sir. What’s more, I accept it would be.
For as far back as two years, Trump has declared that he needs subsidizing endorsement from Congress to construct a divider at the southern fringe. This has brought about the organization constructing a similar steel bollard hindrances that Presidents Bush and Obama worked amid their residencies.
The Trump organization’s primary qualification, authorities have stated, is that their bollard fencing at the fringe is 30 feet high in a few zones, around 10 feet higher than the obstructions worked under Obama.
Most as of late, Trump revived the government by marking a subsidizing charge that proceeds with government spending at current dimensions. The subsidizing measure did exclude any fringe divider assets and along these lines there have been no extra development ventures declared at the southern outskirt.
While the spending bill will subsidize parts of the government through February 15, there are about something like 30,000 illicit fringe intersections that are relied upon to happen amid the following couple of weeks.
This is proportional to about a band of Central American and Mexican vagrants crossing the fringe each day for the following 22 days.