SEATTLE (AP) — Washington state attorney general Bob Ferguson sued President Donald Trump on Thursday over his plan to shift more than $3.6 billion in military construction funding to help build a border wall.
Here in Washington, Trump’s plan would divert $89 million from a pier project at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor.
Ferguson filed the lawsuit in U.S. District Court, saying it was a “misuse of his presidential emergency powers to accomplish an ideological political goal.”
The cuts stemmed from a Feb. 15 declaration by Trump that a national emergency exists at the border that requires the use of the armed forces.
The cut to the project at Naval Base Kitsap in Bangor is one of more than 120 military construction projects in 23 states, three U.S. territories and 20 countries that will lose funding under the move.
The U.S. Pacific Fleet of ballistic missile submarines is located at the Bangor base.
The $89 million was intended to build a pier, maintenance facility and berthing for two vessels that escort and provide security for submarines.