CQ’s award-winning defense reporter John M. Donnelly revealed that a Pentagon fund that President Donald Trump wants to use to pay for his wall is nearly depleted, forcing him to look elsewhere in the Pentagon budget for the money. Trump appears poised to break tradition and bypass Congress in this money transfer, and Donnelly says that “would tear a hole in the fabric of cooperation between the White House and the Congress.”

Show Notes:

• Democrats introduce disapproval of Trump’s border emergency declaration
• Congress could block big chunk of Trump’s emergency wall money
• What is a national emergency? How Congress gave the White House broad, far-reaching powers