Military Troop Funding Diverted

Money designated for the U.S. military has been pushed to pay for pet projects, according to the Washington Times.

Senators moved a whopping $2.6 billion originally set aside for U.S. troop training, fuel and ammunition to fund projects like a new World War II Museum in New Orleans with a price tag of $25 million. The paper said the money will be used for 778 total projects.

"Every dollar that we are forced to spend on things which we do not need requires us to take money from things which we do need,” said Geoff Morrell, a Pentagon spokesperson, in a prepared statement. “And the people who lose in that trade-off are our troops and the taxpayers.”

U.S. Senator Tom Coburn, who attempted to block the motion, called the move “a disgrace that Congress has refused this common sense approach to spending taxpayer dollars.”