Trump's Senate Republican allies give OK to $5,000,000,000 wall request
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Senate GOP allies are pushing to give him his full $5 billion request to build about 200 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border, but the plan ran into immediate opposition from Democrats and is a non-starter with powerful House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
The money faces an uphill slog. Tuesday's subcommittee vote was routine but a heated debate awaits on Thursday when the legislation is voted on in the full Appropriations Committee, where Democrats promise votes to cut the wall funding back. The new GOP-backed money comes after Trump roiled Capitol Hill by transferring $6.1 billion from Pentagon accounts to get around lawmakers opposed to his border wall. Some $3.6 billion of the wall money is coming through Trump's controversial emergency declaration earlier this year, which permitted him to raid military construction projects such as schools and target ranges to finance the wall.
"If Republicans stand with President Trump, they will be saying they fully support allowing the president to take money from our military to fund the border wall," said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.
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