Trump Tweet from almost a year ago illustrating something very similar to the wall he seems intent on building (though the scale is wildly exaggerated)

Trump Takes The Money To Build His Wall From…Guess Where?

Earlier this week the Defense Department said it would take $3.6-billion from 127 other military projects and redirect it to Trump’s wall. But they wouldn’t specify where from until they notified Members of Congress with affected projects in their districts and embassies with affected projects in their countries. Now they have.

And surprise, surprise…A big chunk of it’s coming from areas that are among the President’s biggest pet peeves: namely Puerto Rico and NATO-related operations in Europe. (Mostly funding that’s mean to rebuild or expand the capabilities of U.S. bases there, not direct aid). But some of it’s also coming from areas Trump claims are his (and his daughter Ivanka’s) pet projects: day care and schools for military families are also going to be broadly cut back. And in Arizona, some money’s getting pulled from infrastructure central to one military base, shifted to building a wall along the edge of another military base that sits along the border.

But hang on a sec: taking money away from any project the U.S. military says it needs, and Congress (even Democrats!) have already agreed that it…