From the newsroom of the Washington Post.

This is Cleveland, to the Washington Post.

It's Ellen Nakashima with Washington Post.

This is Post for Forrest.

I'm Martin Powers.

It's Friday, March 22.

Today, how Trump will use the Pentagon's budget to pay for his border wall.

Roseanne Barr heads to Israel and what birth order says about personality.

When President Trump declared a national emergency last month,

that meant that he could access billions of dollars in military funding and use it for the border wall.

We're talking about an invasion of our country with drugs, with human traffickers,

with all types of criminals and gangs.

What this national emergency allows Trump to do theoretically is to take any of the money that Congress has given to the Pentagon,

but has yet to be contracted out.

That's Paul Sanny.

I am the Pentagon correspondent for the Post.

The White House hasn't said what projects will have their funding redirected toward the wall.

But this week, the Department of Defense released a list of forthcoming projects.

And the funding for these projects could be on the chopping block if the president uses his emergency powers.

So what we did is we went through that list.

We took the list of $12.9 billion worth of projects.

And we cut out everything that is scheduled to award between now and the end of September.

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