Fox Business host Kennedy on Wednesday admitted that most conservatives would have been up in arms if former President Barack Obama had proposed siphoning off money from the U.S. defense budget to pay for a pet project the way that President Donald Trump has proposed doing.
Earlier in the day, Trump had pledged that he would find a way to fund construction of his proposed border wall even if Congress failed to allocate funds for it. What's more, the president said he would have the military work on building the wall.
"That's not the way the government works," Kennedy said on a Fox News panel. "You can't just take $1 billion from this program, $1 billion from over here, and then put it toward your pet project."
She then asked conservatives to consider how they would have felt had Obama pulled a similar stunt.
"If this were the Obama administration and President Obama had done that with Solyndra, and taken money from the defense budget for a solar panel company, we would all be up in arms," she said. "It's really not okay, it's not how the government should function."
She finished off by pointing out that Trump couldn't get funding for the wall even when his party had control of both chambers of Congress.
"It just goes to show what a politically toxic issue this is," she said.
