Senate approves $4.6 billion emergency spending bill for Southern border crisis
Source: Washington Post
The Senate on Wednesday approved $4.6 billion in emergency spending for the U.S.-Mexico border, with lawmakers galvanized by a chilling photo of a father and his young daughter lying dead in the Rio Grande.
But despite the overwhelming 84-to-8 vote and a bipartisan sense of urgency to act, a struggle loomed with the House, which passed a different version of the spending bill on Tuesday that contains greater restrictions on the Trump administration and is opposed by the White House.
Senate Republicans oppose the House bill, too, and were urging House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) to take up and pass the bipartisan Senate version before Congress leaves town for a 10-day recess as soon as Thursday. But Pelosi ruled that out, telling reporters: “They pass their bill. We respect that. We passed our bill, we hope they would respect that. And there’s some improvements that we think can be reconciled.”
Pelosi addressed reporters not long after having a phone conversation with Trump during which she urged him to support a negotiation on the border bill.
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By Erica Werner and Mike DeBonis June 26 at 3:30 PM
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