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Tweet - "Last week, we learned that DoD was shifting $129M in counternarcotics funding away from its intended use -- fighting heroin production in Afghanistan -- towards paying for the increased costs of President Trump's border wall. This is not a good decision by any standard."

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Date: Oct. 16, 2019
Issues: Defense Foreign Affairs Drugs Immigration

"Last week, we learned that DoD was shifting $129M in counternarcotics funding away from its intended use -- fighting heroin production in Afghanistan -- towards paying for the increased costs of President Trump's border wall. This is not a good decision by any standard."

"Today I led a group of @SenateDems in calling on Defense Sec. Esper to reconsider this wall-funding strategy. This funding must be used as Congress intended -- to combat the Taliban's drug production & trafficking operations.

After all, isn't Mexico supposed to pay for the wall?"

@SenatorDurbin


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