Analysis: The fight over Trump's emergency declaration is so explosive because it's about one of the most precious pieces of pork in the budget — military construction funds
of 38 projects, worth $287 million or about 3 percent of the $9.2 billion military construction bill.
Did we get credit for being selective? Hardly. We had lifted a rock under which the real politics of military construction had been hidden for years. The creatures under the rock were not happy. Ask anyone in Congress about their worst nightmare. Next to losing reelection, it’s that the base in their district might close. My OMB boss, director Leon Panetta, who represented Monterey and, which was shuttered in the 1991 round of closures, said to me more than once, “I never want to go through another base closure round in my life; the local politics are lethal.”
Here’s how it worked: A service would remove a particular construction project from the five-year plan or from the president’s budget, by agreement with the member of Congress. Then that member, for whom the project was actually important, could ask the service for a letter that would testify as to the vital contribution of that project to our national security.
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