Boxed-in Pelosi calls for 'immediate conference' with Trump, GOP on border bill
by Susan Ferrechio
| June 27, 2019 10:04 AM
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, under pressure to approve funding for the border crisis this week, sent a memo to rank-and-file Democrats calling for the Senate, President Trump, and House lawmakers to negotiate on a border funding deal.
“We are calling upon the Trump administration and the Senate to engage in an immediate conference to do the best we can for the children before we leave for the 4th of July,†Pelosi wrote to Democrats Thursday.
Pelosi’s announcement comes moments after the House Rules Committee approved a border funding bill that combines a bipartisan Senate measure with progressive provisions that were part of a measure House Democrats passed on Tuesday.
The House will vote later today on the second border measure the Rules Committee approved Thursday morning, a Democratic aide confirmed.
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