to obtain $8 billion for border wall construction, the trump administration proposes augmenting the earlier february 14 $1.375 billion appropriations bill by diverting other previously-allocated monies: $3.6 billion for military construction, $2.5 billion for the department of defense's counter-drug activities, and $600 million from treasury's drug-asset forfeiture funds. white house officials said that the national emergency specifically enabled the $3.6 billion military diversion while the $2.5 billion from defense and the $600 million from treasury were possible due to "presidential discretion".