The federal appeals court in San Francisco upheld as illegal President Donald Trump’s use of $2.5 billion in Dept. of Defense funds to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border.
The court ruled on June 26 that the administration does not have Constitutional authority to transfer funds from the military’s congressionally approved budget. It affirmed a lower court’s ruling that budgetary transfers were not authorized under a 2019 law regulating DOD appropriations.