More On Border Security

The Defense Department plans to "defer" spending on some projects, hoping to get the funding back later.

Air Force Gen. Terrence O'Shaughnessy told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the threats "are not military in nature."

Taking military project money for border wall funding has members of Congress nervous.

President Donald Trump's border policies have drawn comparisons to the internment of Japanese-Americans in World War II.

National Guard counterdrug efforts lack an updated plan and oversight, the GAO recently found.

"Some generals thinks this is more important," Trump said of funding a wall rather than military construction projects.

The funding would come at the expense of canceling or leaving half-built a number of DoD projects.

Sen. James Inhofe said he is against taking money out of the military construction budget to fund a wall on the border.

Lawmakers are faced with a hard choice between the wall and military construction projects in their home states.

Rep. Adam Smith told Shanahan he is "deeply troubled" by the testimony Under Secretary of Defense for Policy John Rood gave.