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US Supreme Court allows Trump to spend $2.5bn in Pentagon funds on border wall
Published time: 26 Jul, 2019 22:28 Edited time: 26 Jul, 2019 22:37
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The US Supreme Court has blocked a ruling by a California judge that would have prevented President Donald Trump from spending $2.5 billion in Pentagon funds to build a wall along the country’s southern border.
The court’s 5-4 ruling fully reversed a California district judge’s decision last month forbidding the president from redirecting the Congress-approved funds because the legislature hadn’t specifically authorized the money to be spent on Trump’s long-touted construction project.
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