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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 1790 (EAH) — 116 S1790 EAH: National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 · Sec. 1046

Sec. 1046. Prohibition on use of funds for construction of a wall, fence, or other physical barrier along the southern border of the United States

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National defense funds may not be obligated, expended, or otherwise used to design or carry out a project to construct, replace, or modify a wall, fence, or other physical barrier along the international border between the United States and Mexico. In this section, the term national defense funds means— amounts authorized to be appropriated for any purpose in this division or authorized to be appropriated in division A of any National Defense Authorization Act for any of fiscal years 2015 through 2019, including any amounts of such an authorization made available to the Department of Defense and transferred to another authorization by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to transfer authority available to the Secretary; and funds appropriated in any Act pursuant to an authorization of appropriations described in paragraph (1).
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