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DonViejo

(60,536 posts)
Wed Mar 21, 2018, 09:27 AM Mar 2018

Omnibus to include $641M in funding for non-concrete border barrier

Source: The Hill




BY NIV ELIS - 03/21/18 08:58 AM EDT

Congressional leaders are poised to meet in a snowy Washington on Wednesday to finalize a deal on a $1.3 trillion spending package that could include money for border barriers, but not President Trump's wall.

The White House has demanded $1.6 billion in funding for the president's signature issue, one of several fights that has held up talks days before a possible government shutdown.

It appears the legislation will fall well short of Trump's demands, but could include $641 million for 33 miles of new border fencing. It would also include $1.296 billion in funding new border technology. The funding would only be used for levees and fences, not a concrete wall, according to the source familiar with the discussions.

Trump hoped to win $25 billion in money that could be put in a trust for the wall.


Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/379468-omnibus-to-include-641m-in-funding-for-non-concrete-border-barrier

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Omnibus to include $641M in funding for non-concrete border barrier (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
I thought they were going to build the wall NewJeffCT Mar 2018 #1
LOL n/t Orsino Mar 2018 #4
I see what you did there! (n/t) forgotmylogin Mar 2018 #5
I remember clearing McConnell saying--NO FUNDING FOR THE WALL. riversedge Mar 2018 #2
B S Firestorm49 Mar 2018 #3

Firestorm49

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Wed Mar 21, 2018, 10:47 AM
Mar 2018

Let Trump’s supporters pay for the damn wall. They wanted it, not me. Where’s his “promise” to make Mexico pay for it? And now the buffoon occupying the Oval Office and his two bit cronies in the House and Senate are fucking us again, and using OUR money. When are the fools who voted for this idiot going to realize that they’ve been conned? Or, are they just that stupid? Choose one of the following: _______yes Or _______yes.

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