California court banned Trump from building a wall on the border with Mexico for budget money

The administration of US President Donald Trump should temporarily stop using the Department of Defense funds to build a border wall with Mexico.

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This decision 24 May issued a court in California, justifying it by the fact that the money allocated by the Pentagon to the wall did not receive Congress approval to redirect them to the construction of the border barrier, writes Reuters.

The court decision blocks 1 from using a billion dollars from the Department of Defense, which should have been used to build a wall in Arizona and Texas. In total, the Trump administration said it plans to send billions of 6,7 to the wall for the construction of the wall.

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“The position that when Congress denies the executive branch's request for appropriate funds, the executive branch can nevertheless simply find a way to spend those funds "without Congress" is inconsistent with the fundamental principles of the separation of powers dating back to the earliest days of our Republic,” California Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. said in his ruling.

We are talking about two sections of the wall - 78 km in the state of New Mexico and 8 km in Arizona, for the construction of which the Pentagon has already allocated money based on the state of emergency introduced by Trump. In his decision, the judge indicated that the "absolute" control of Congress over budget expenditures is not an error of the existing system in the country, even in cases when it is contrary to the wishes of the executive.

"This is a feature of this system, and, moreover, significant," he said.

Separately, Gilliam rejected the introduction of a preliminary injunction against the construction of the border wall, which the coalition of sixteen states demands in its lawsuit, but noted that the plaintiffs can continue to seek to satisfy their demands in the courts.

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Representatives of the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon and the White House did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

Trump said that the wall is needed to overcome the crisis at the border, which leads to the entry of criminals and drugs into the country.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

• In February, after a protracted political battle and the closure of the government, Congress approved the allocation of 1,38 billion dollars for the construction of a “primary pedestrian fence” along the border in southeast Texas. This amount was significantly less than the requirements of Trump, who wanted to get almost 6 billion dollars for the construction of the wall.
• To get extra money, Trump has declared a state of emergency in the country in connection with the “crisis at the border,” which, according to the law, allows the president to use funds from other funds to combat a crisis situation. As a result, his administration announced that it plans to take $601 million from the Treasury Department's impoundment fund for the wall, redirect $2,5 billion from the Department of Defense (Pentagon) counterdrug programs to the wall, and another $3,6 billion from the Department of Defense (Pentagon). from the budget allocated for military construction projects of the Department of Defense.
• At the moment Trump administration has received from the Pentagon 1 billion dollars from the planned amount.
• House of Representatives, 16 States and two human rights groups appealed to the US District Court in Oakland, California, with the requirement to block the redirection of these funds for the construction of the wall.
• They argue that the presidential administration cannot use funds that Congress has refused to allocate to it, cannot build a border barrier that has not been authorized by parliament, and cannot work outside of the geographical area defined by Congress.

Funding for the 23 wall in May came up against another lawsuit filed by the House of Representatives in federal court in the District of Columbia. Lawmakers said the removal of 6,1 billion dollars worth of Department of Defense funds violates the doctrine of separation of powers set forth in the US Constitution.

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