The Senate’s homeland defense budget committee voted to fund President Donald Trump’s $1.6 billion request to build or upgrade 74 miles of border wall but rejected his request for extra funding to repatriate or block more illegal migrants.
The House has already approved the $1.6 billion in border-wall funding, so the Democrats’ next best chance to stop the funding is a vote on the Senate floor.
The wall funding is just 3 percent of the over $51.6 billion bill, which funds all aspects of homeland spending in 2018.
The committee refused to add funding for 850 extra repatriation officers or funding to increase detention space for the rising wave of migrants who claim asylum at the border. ...
What if foreign invaders were coming across the border in tanks, if congress and the courts refused to help us, would President Trump and his supporters still have to sit like helpless infants in a highchair?
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/11/21/senate-panel-funds-border-wall-continues-catch-and-release/
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