Congressman Doug Lamborn supports President Trump’s national emergency declaration

It’s a proud morning for Republican Congressman Doug Lamborn.

He nominated 40 students to attend Military Service Academies, including the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, on Saturday morning.

He said his past nominees have all gone on to do great things.

“Many of them have gone on to great beginnings or even mid-careers in the military,” Lamborn says.

It’s their future as service men and women he’s worried about.

Congressman Lamborn serves on a subcommittee that is a branch of House Armed Services Committee that funds a portion of the department of defense.

He says, “I will be in a great position to make sure our young men and women, the ones in uniform are the best equipped and the best trained in the world.”

After the government shutdown deal and President Trump declaring a national emergency, a portion of that money will be shifted away from military construction.

The President said on Friday, “we are going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border. And we are going to do it one way or the other. We have to do it.”

Congressman Lamborn supports the decision even if it means taking away billions of dollars of the department of defense and it putting it toward the border wall.

“The president has identified funds including 3.6 billion dollars from military readiness projects. That’s my only concern with what he’s doing. He had to do something so I applaud him for doing something.”

He just hopes he can get it back.

“I just want to make sure that if any money is taken away from military construction that we replace it from other sources.”

If there’s anything guaranteed, it’s the uncertainty of when a border wall will and come and what will be sacrificed for future generations to fund it.