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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

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Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:27 PM Jun 2019

Senators reach $4.5B deal on Trump's emergency border request

he top members of the Senate Appropriations Committee have struck a deal on President Trump's request for more funding tied to the U.S.-Mexico border after weeks of stalemate, two aides confirmed to The Hill.

The deal — worked out between Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) and Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), the top Democrat on the panel — would provide Trump more than $4.5 billion for the border funding package.

The agreement will be marked up in the Senate Appropriations Committee on Wednesday, and is expected to get a vote on the Senate floor before lawmakers leave for the July 4th recess next week.

The breakthrough comes after Shelby and Leahy spoke several times over the weekend, including on a trip back from Paris, to try to work out a deal in principle between themselves.

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/449217-senators-reach-45b-deal-on-trumps-emergency-border-request

Still has to pass the House.

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Senators reach $4.5B deal on Trump's emergency border request (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Jun 2019 OP
What did Democrats get? watoos Jun 2019 #1
An ironclad agreement that the money will only be used for humanitarian purposes at the border Blue_true Jun 2019 #3
As long as McConnell is there I would d not agree demosincebirth Jun 2019 #2

Blue_true

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3. An ironclad agreement that the money will only be used for humanitarian purposes at the border
Tue Jun 18, 2019, 08:55 PM
Jun 2019

would be enough for me.

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