Lame Duck Fight Planned Over Border Wall Funding
Published:
Fri, Oct 12th 2018 @ 12:36 pm EDT
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., this week said Senate Republicans are “committed to helping the president get wall funding†during the lame duck session. The Senate included $1.6 billion for wall funding in its 2019 spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) but McConnell wants to match the $5 billion figure set by the House Appropriations Committee.
McConnell told the Washington Examiner, “We are going to try really hard to get the money the president would like this year for the border wall.â€
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