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| Border wall remains major holdup in spending talks |
| 2018-12-05 |
| [Washington Examiner] As Congress plans to push through a stop-gap bill to keep the government open for two weeks, Democrats are standing firm against the $5 billion President Trump wants for a border wall. Democrats want to stick to the $1.6 billion for border security allocated in a bipartisan Homeland Security appropriations bill, which includes repairs to fencing, levees, and more money for tech. Some congressional Republicans appear ready to pass the larger government funding package, according to House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer, D-Md., but Trump isn’t. "Essentially we have agreement on what needs to be done, and it is simply the wall that is the major and principle item that is holding up full agreement," Hoyer told reporters on Tuesday. "I’m hopeful in the next week or so that that will be resolved one way or another." Democrats are committed to border security, Hoyer said, but won’t back money for Trump’s physical border wall. Senate and House Democratic leaders Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., were set to meet with Trump Tuesday but postponed their conversation due to the funeral of former President George H. W. Bush. |
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