House Democrats release $4.5B border aid package

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico


By SARAH FERRIS and JENNIFER SCHOLTES 06/21/2019 01:44 PM EDT

House spending leaders released a $4.5 billion emergency funding measure Friday to fulfill some of President Donald Trump’s request for additional aid to handle the influx of immigrants at the U.S.-Mexico border.

The 27-page bill differs from the version the Senate approved in committee this week by including extra oversight demands and giving hundreds of millions of dollars less to Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But Democratic spending leaders contend the broad elements of the bills are similar, improving prospects for a bipartisan compromise before the Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services completely deplete resources in the coming weeks.

House Democratic leaders are eyeing a Tuesday vote on the bill, eager to have it signed into law before they depart for a 10-day July Fourth recess, according to lawmakers and aides.

But the funding package will be a tough sell for many in the Democratic caucus who are still seething over the president’s defiance of Congress on immigration policy and on construction of a border wall, even as he seeks a $4.5 billion infusion to support the very agencies carrying out those directives.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/06/21/house-democrats-border-aid-package-1548900

[Bayard]

1. A large proportion of that money

Needs to go for soap, toothpaste, and beds.

[lunatica]

2. That still won't make it right to detain them in concentration camps.

[Bayard]

4. Of course not

But it would be the human thing to do, until they can be freed.

[lunatica]

5. I didn't mean to sound critical of you

Sorry if I sounded that way!

[Bayard]

6. And I didn't take it that way.

No worries!

[Glimmer of Hope]

3. Will this feed and diaper sick two year olds?