BANGOR — Funding for a new pier to dock Coast Guard vessels that protect the Navy's Trident ballistic missile submarines has been diverted to help pay for a wall along the Mexican border, a decision decried by the state's two Democratic senators and Congressman Derek Kilmer, D-Gig Harbor.

The $88.9 million pier and maintenance facility for Naval Base Kitsap-Bangor's Maritime Force Protection Unit was among 127 military construction projects announced by the Pentagon this week to lose funding. Instead, a sum of $3.6 billion will go to construct about 175 miles of President Donald Trump's border wall.

"It is deeply disturbing to see the administration unilaterally raid funds from these vital projects in Washington and across the country to fund an ineffective, completely unnecessary border wall," Sens. Patty Murray and Maria Cantwell said in a joint statement with Kilmer. "Our men and women in uniform deserve better.”

Trump has so far succeeded in building replacement barriers within the 654 miles of fencing built during the Obama and Bush administrations. The funding shift will allow for about 115 miles of new fencing in areas where there aren't any now.

The Bangor pier and maintenance facility project was the only Washington state military construction project named by lawmakers as being cut. The extension of another nearby pier at Bangor for Seawolf-class submarines had been mentioned on earlier lists as a project to be cut but was not mentioned Wednesday.

The Coast Guard, through the Maritime Force Protection Unit, has been escorting and providing protection to the eight Trident ballistic missile submarines homeported at Bangor. Established in July 2007 at both Bangor and Kings Bay, Georgia — home of the other six ballistic missile subs — the units are based with the Navy though they comprise personnel and vessels from the Coast Guard.

Elaine McCusker, the Pentagon comptroller, said the now-unfunded projects are not being canceled. Instead, the Pentagon is saying the military projects are being "deferred." The Defense Department, however, has no guarantee from Congress that any of the money will be replaced.

Congress approved $1.375 billion for wall construction in this year's budget, same as the previous year and far less than the $5.7 billion that the White House sought. Trump grudgingly accepted the money to end a 35-day government shutdown in February but simultaneously declared a national emergency to take money from other government accounts, identifying up to $8.1 billion for wall construction.

The transferred funds include $600 million from the Treasury Department's asset forfeiture fund, $2.5 billion from Defense Department counterdrug activities and now the $3.6 billion pot for military housing construction announced Tuesday.

The Pentagon reviewed the list of military projects and said none that provided housing or critical infrastructure for troops would be affected, in the wake of recent scandals over poor living quarters for service members in several parts of the country. Defense officials also said they would focus on projects set to begin in 2020 and beyond, with the hope that the money could eventually be restored by Congress.

"To pay for his xenophobic border wall boondoggle, President Trump is about to weaken our national security by stealing billions of dollars from our military," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Florida, who chairs a key military construction panel. "The House of Representatives will not backfill any projects he steals from today."

The government will spend the military housing money on 11 wall projects in California, Arizona and Texas, the administration said in a filing Tuesday in a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union. The most expensive is for 52 miles in Laredo, Texas, at a cost of $1.27 billion.

The Laredo project and one in El Centro, California, are on private property, which would require purchase or confiscation, according to the court filing. Two projects in Arizona are on land overseen by the Navy and will be the first to be built, no earlier than Oct. 3. Seven are at least partly on federal land overseen by the Interior Department.

The 175 miles covered by the Pentagon funding represents just a small fraction of the 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border.

Army Lt. Gen. Andrew W. Poppas, director of operations for the Joint Staff, told reporters that shoring up the wall could eventually lead to a reduction in the number of troops who are deployed along the border. About 3,000 active-duty troops and 2,000 members of the National Guard are being used along the border to support Homeland Security and border patrol efforts. About 1,200 of the active-duty troops are conducting surveillance in mobile truck units.

Pappas and other officials couldn't say how soon or by how many the troop numbers could go down. Pentagon spokesman Jonathan Hoffman said the troops would remain at the border for as long as they are needed.

The ACLU said Tuesday that it would seek a court order to block spending the military money. It sued earlier over the use of Defense Department counterdrug money, but the Supreme Court lifted a spending freeze on that money in July, allowing the first Pentagon-funded wall project to break ground last month in Arizona.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.