NEW: Senate rejects bill approved yesterday by the House of Representatives that would have provided $4.5 billion to address a surge in migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, while setting new standards for the care of migrants taken into custody
WASHINGTON - The U.S. Senate on Wednesday rejected a bill approved a day earlier by the House of Representatives that would have provided $4.5 billion to address a surge in migration at the U.S. border with Mexico, while setting new standards for the care of migrants taken into custody.
Last month, President Donald Trump requested aid for programs to house, feed, transport and oversee a surge of Central American migrants seeking asylum in the United States. But he had vowed to veto the House legislation. White House officials had said the bill would hamper the Trump administration's border enforcement efforts.
The Senate was set to move to a separate vote on its own border aid bill after defeating the House measure.
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