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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, FEbRuARY 27, 2019
US general says no military threat on southern border
Air Force’s O’Shaughnessy
testifies in Congress
By LOLITA C. BALDOR
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — Under pointed ques-
tioning from senators, the top U.S. general
for homeland defense said Tuesday that
he sees no military threat coming from the
southern border with Mexico, but his focus
in on “very real” threats from China and
Russia in the north.
Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy,
commander, U.S. Northern Command and
North American Aerospace Defense Com-
mand, told a Senate committee that proposed
barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border could
increase security against any potential mili-
tary threats coming from the south. But he
said Russia’s advancements in training and
capabilities, and its intent to hold the U.S.
at risk, present an urgent threat to America.
President Donald Trump has declared a
national emergency along the southern bor-
der to fund his proposed wall, and he plans
to use Defense Department funds from mili-
tary construction and counter-drug programs
to pay for it. Members of Congress are chal-
lenging that.
Democratic senators on the Senate Armed
Services Committee peppered O’Shaugh-
nessy with questions about the need to divert
the money from existing projects and ques-
tioned the validity of a national emergency
declaration.
“I’m concerned, very frankly, that this
administration is politicizing our military
and militarizing our immigration policy —
in effect, using the troops under your com-
mand as political props, both in terms of
declaring a fake emergency but also com-
promising our potential security by divert-
ing them away from other assignments and
missions that are absolutely necessary,” said
Sen. Richard Blumenthal, D-Conn.
The meeting comes as the Democrat-
ic-controlled House voted Tuesday to
revoke Trump’s emergency declaration, and
send legislation to the Republican-held Sen-
ate, where it would take only a handful of
GOP defections to pass it.
O’Shaughnessy, who visited the south-
AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster
Air Force Gen. Terrence O’Shaughnessy testifies during a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington.
ern border on Saturday with Acting Defense
Secretary Patrick Shanahan, was careful to
defer any assessment of the southern threat
to the Department of Homeland Security
and Customs and Border Protection. He said
that those agencies believe that more fencing
can impact the movement of drugs across
the border.
O’Shaughnessy said he would defer to
the Department of Homeland Security “on
the character of the threat,” adding that
Northern Command is trying to “be a good
partner” as the other agencies take on the
drug trafficking challenge. Asked if it is a
national emergency, he said, it is a “national
issue” that requires a “whole-of-government
approach.”
Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., questioned
whether Congress should allow Trump
to use Pentagon money for a nondefense
emergency.
“The threat isn’t military, and still we’ll
take $6 billion out of the defense budget
to deal with it?” said Kaine. “If we set that
precedent, I certainly can foresee a day when
a president is going to say 40,000 gun deaths
a year are an emergency, and why don’t we
take money out of the Pentagon budget to
deal with that?”
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, argued that
the shipment of illegal drugs from Mexico
into the U.S. has caused tens of thousands
of deaths, and that it constituted an emer-
gency. But he also endorsed O’Shaugh-
nessy’s assertion that Russia’s expanding
fleet of icebreakers in the Arctic present a
serious threat, and the U.S. needs to increase
its capabilities there.
The Coast Guard has one working Polar-
class icebreaker ship, but there’s funding
in the Defense Department budget to begin
building more. Sullivan said the poor con-
dition of the U.S. ship is a disgrace, and the
U.S. needs more ability to counter Russia
and China in the arctic.
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