Trump wants $4.5 billion more for border – Dems say they’re not ‘bailing out ICE for overspending’
Posted on May 2, 2019 by Tribune News Service
The White House asked Congress on Wednesday for $4.5 billion more in emergency funding to address a surge of migrants at the southern border.
In doing so, the administration acknowledged that President Donald Trump’s emergency declaration to divert taxpayer money for a yet-to-be-built border wall cannot address the growing humanitarian challenge on the ground, which now requires additional government funding.
The president and his aides previously insisted the February declaration was necessary to address a “humanitarian and national security crisis.†But senior administration officials speaking on background told reporters Wednesday that those funds were never intended to – and could not – be used for for anything other than barrier construction.
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