"roll call" reported on february 21, 2019, that over one-third of the funds the trump administration had identified for diversion had already been spent by the department of defense. in march 2019 the pentagon issued a list of proposed military construction projects which could be postponed, under the president's emergency declaration, so that their funding could be diverted to build the wall. the pentagon authorized up to $1 billion to be transferred to the army corps of engineers for construction of additional barriers.