Decrying Trump’s list

March 19, 2019 at 12:00a.m.

YOUNGSTOWN

U.S. Rep. Tim Ryan of Howland, D-13th, and U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Cleveland, responded Monday to the Trump Administration’s list of military construction projects potentially impacted by President Trump’s border wall. Among these are possible projects in Ravenna and Youngstown.

“We expected this unwelcome news, but now it’s official. The president’s fake national emergency is jeopardizing critical military projects in Ohio. This is unacceptable,” Ryan said in a news release.

Brown added in a statement: “The president’s decision to go around Congress and take funding away from our military to support his vanity project is reckless and irresponsible.”

Ryan said among the Ohio projects meeting the criteria that are eligible for funds to be rescinded are: Youngstown Air Reserve Station: Relocate Main Gate, $8.8 million, and Camp Garfield (formerly Camp Ravenna), Automated Multipurpose Machine Gun (MPMG) Range, $7.4 million.