USA: Justice blocks part of border wall funds

A US federal judge on Friday ordered the government to temporarily suspend the $ 1 billion allocation from the Pentagon's budget to build the wall along the border with Mexico that President Donald Trump wanted.
The magistrate of the Northern District of California justified this decision by the fact that the new allocation of funds had not been approved by the Congress.
"The position that the executive could, when Congress refuses a request for funding, find a way to use these funds" without the Congress ", does not respect the fundamental principles of the separation of powers that go back to first days of our Republic, "wrote Judge Haywood Gilliam Jr. in his order.
The spokesmen for the Department of Homeland Security, the Pentagon and the White House did not respond to Reuters' solicitations.