More On Border Wall

Defense Secretary Mark Esper on Thursday signed off on a new deployment of personnel to the southern U.S. border, a mission...

The military has shifted 160 troops on the southern border.

Navy leaders said they weren't consulted about billions being pulled out of military funds to pay for border barriers.

Opposition is growing to the Defense Department's transfer of nearly $1.7 billion to fund the U.S.-Mexico border wall.

Some of the programs targeted for reduction had been overfunded by Congress at levels above the military's original request.

Rep. Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, is the vice chairman of the committee and a retired colonel in the Army Reserve.

The Trump administration is planning to take $7.2 more from the military to pay for the border wall.