Utah Sens. Mike Lee and Mitt Romney are urging the Pentagon not to transfer funding meant for Hill Air Force Base to use in building President Donald Trump’s wall on the southern U.S. border.
The two in a letter to Acting Secretary of Defense Patrick M. Shanahan and Secretary of the Air Force Heather Wilson expressed “our significant concerns about potential plans to divert funds away from critical military construction projects in Utah as a result of the February 15, 2019, emergency declaration.”
They added that such a move would “undermine military capabilities that are essential to our national security strategy.