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NEW DSCC AD: Cornyn Puts Even More Military Funds at Risk After Losing $38.5 Million for Texas

Senator Cornyn voted to allow the president to raid millions from Texas military projects, now he’s refusing to prevent another cash grab

Pentagon documents revealed that “lives would be put at risk” if many of these projects were not funded

Following Senator John Cornyn’s vote today to put even more funding for Texas military construction projects at risk, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee is launching a new digital ad campaign on Facebook holding him accountable for failing to stand up for Texas’ military communities.

Senator Cornyn’s vote for President Trump’s sham emergency declaration has already cost Texas’ military communities $38.5 million, and the Washington Post has reported that officials are again considering diverting even more funds away from military projects across the country. Yet Cornyn has consistently dismissed this cash grab from his state’s military communities as a “parochial concern.”

“Senator Cornyn helped pave the way for this harmful raid on critical military construction funding, and he just voted again to uphold this bogus emergency declaration and allow the Trump administration to keep diverting money away from Texas military communities,” said DSCC spokesperson Stewart Boss. “Even as the White House threatens to claw away even more money from Texas, Cornyn is so craven that he voted to double down on enabling this reckless cash grab. Our new ad campaign will continue to hold Senator Cornyn accountable for failing Texas military communities and refusing to stand up for Texans.”

Read more about Senator John Cornyn’s failure to put Texas first:

  • Waco Tribune Editorial: “On the verge of Constitution Day, the president seems to have conceded that all those deal-making skills he touted were just part of his successful 2016 charade. He and his minions now rewrite vast chunks of immigration and asylum law, making a mockery of Congress’ reserved power to write and pass laws — laws the president is to execute, not bend to his whims. Alas, Republican lawmakers today find the founding document they once so readily championed a dusty inconvenience demanding political courage they quite obviously lack. Rather than stick up for the military and the Constitution, many now jump ship or avert their gaze. They deserve no accolades, no respect and no sympathy.”
  • Houston Chronicle Editorial: “Trump’s emphasis on immigration is also impacting the military in a different way, with $3.6 billion in Pentagon funding diverted to building his long-promised — and questionably effective — border wall. While affected projects in Texas — $20 million for defense access roads at Fort Bliss, for example — seem like easily deferred spending, other projects are more time sensitive… While some of those funds will go to replace existing segments of the border fence, the rest will be new construction. Much of that will take place in Texas and represents tax dollars used to steamroll property owners and damage the environment in the pursuit of an ineffective, politically motivated boondoggle that won’t keep anyone safe.”
  • Austin American-Statesman: “Texas is losing $38.5 million earmarked by Congress for military construction projects but gaining 52 miles of new border fencing near Laredo at a cost of $1.27 billion.”
  • Washington Post: “‘How would I square voting differently?’ Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) asked reporters Tuesday, declaring he plans to vote once again to uphold Trump’s emergency declaration. Cornyn is up for reelection, and his state is losing some $38.5 million in funds for projects in El Paso and San Antonio. But Cornyn declared such concerns ‘way too parochial’ and expressed confidence that the money for the Texas projects would ultimately be restored, even though Democrats have insisted they will not go along with that plan. ‘There won’t be any net loss in my opinion,’ Cornyn said.”
  • POLITICO: “Cornyn downplayed concerns about military construction projects in his home state, saying that passing the funding to replenish them down the road would amount to a drop in the bucket for total defense appropriations. ‘We all have parochial concerns about our states but border security is part of national security so my constituents want to make sure we do our job,’ Cornyn said.”

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