Donald Trump Hits a Congressional Wall on Border Wall Funding

Article CAIRCO note: 
Who would have guessed? Congress is for open borders
Article author: 
Neil Munro
Article publisher: 
Breitbart
Article date: 
16 November 2018
Article category: 
National News
Tags: 
border
illegal immigration
Congress
President
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Medium
Article Body: 
GOP senators are nudging President Donald Trump to give up hopes for a $5 billion down-payment on a border wall in 2019.
 
“My goal is to get the [budget] bills passed” in December, said Sen. Richard Shelby, the GOP chairman of the Senate’s appropriations committee, said Nov. 15 after meeting Trump for a budget discussion. His committee has penciled in $1.6 billion for the wall in 2019, compared to the $5 billion in the draft House bill. Shelby added, according to the Washington Post:...
 
Democrats have enough votes and discipline in the Senate to block any budget deal, but they may want to avoid a budget clash and government shutdown so that they may endorse another $1.6 billion budget in 2019. The allocation would push Trump’s border-wall spending up to a total of $4.8 billion from 2017 to 2019.
 
But Democrats are opposing Trump’s push for $5 billion in wall funding in 2019....

 

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