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President Donald Trump’s fight to secure funding for the southern border with Mexico could jeopardize funding for key US bases that support operations in the Middle East and North Africa, according to a Pentagon list released this month.
As the White House considers what has been termed the “cost plus 50” plan to charge US allies in Germany and Japan for basing American troops, the Defense Department released a list of projects that could be defunded to finance $3.6 billion of border wall, a key Trump campaign pledge that congressional Democrats aren’t interested in paying for.
