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babylonsister

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Wed Aug 30, 2017, 04:06 PM Aug 2017

The Latest: GOP eyeing $1B disaster funds cut to help wall



The Latest: GOP eyeing $1B disaster funds cut to help wall

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and Congress (all times local):

12:05 p.m.

President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Hurricane Harvey, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall.

The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when Congress returns from its August recess. The $876 million cut, part of the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

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https://www.apnews.com/83e6782d48e04993a741b834771c078b
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The Latest: GOP eyeing $1B disaster funds cut to help wall (Original Post) babylonsister Aug 2017 OP
It's like they ask themselves "what would a great government do?" unblock Aug 2017 #1
Time for the Democrats to suggest cutting the stupid wall and increase disaster funding Freethinker65 Aug 2017 #2
Is this reality or a bad movie script? world wide wally Aug 2017 #3

unblock

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1. It's like they ask themselves "what would a great government do?"
Wed Aug 30, 2017, 04:08 PM
Aug 2017

and then they do exactly the opposite....

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