Ocasio-Cortez slams Trump for diverting money to border wall
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has blasted President Trump for diverting defense money to build his promised border wall, calling it a “project driven by ego.”
On Friday, the lawmaker shared a New York Times story about the Fort Campbell Army base which will not be getting a new middle school as planned because the funding was shifted to the border wall with Mexico.
In response, Ocasio-Cortez tweeted: “Trump is taking away middle schools from military families, robbing disaster relief from hardest-hit communities,& chopping up people’s property via eminent domain for his little wall.”
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She added: “This is a project driven by ego – not a desire to serve and improve the lives of human beings.”
The Trump administration has faced backlash from a number of lawmakers and groups for deciding to spend $3.6 billion earmarked for the military on the border instead.
