The president will ask Congress for another $8.6 billion on Monday to complete a 722-mile border wall, according to a senior administration official
President Donald Trump will ask Congress for another $8.6 billion on Monday to complete a 722-mile border wall, a senior administration official told POLITICO.for the upcoming fiscal year, which ends just one month before the 2020 presidential election. The sum — billions of dollars higher than the $5.
7 billion demand that sparked the 35-day government shutdown — will surely divide spending negotiators again this year, likely resulting in static funding levels for much of the rest of the government or another lapse.The administration already plans to use $8.1 billion in the current fiscal year to finish more than half of the wall by dipping into other funding sources, including through Trump's controversial emergency order Congress is in the process of likely rebuking. The $8.
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