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House Appropriators Add $2 Billion For Border Wall; Fund Commercial Icebreaker

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, May 18th, 2023

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House Appropriators Add $2 Billion For Border Wall; Fund Commercial Icebreaker

Rep. Dave Joyce (R-Ohio), chairman of the House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee. Photo: House of Representatives

A House Appropriations panel on Thursday approved a $62.8 billion funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that provides $2.1 billion to restart the building of a security wall along the U.S. southwest border and fully funds the Coast Guard’s request to acquire a commercial polar icebreaker. The proposed fiscal year 2024 funding by the House Appropriations Subcommittee on Homeland Security is $2.4 billion more than requested by the Biden administration and $2.1 billion more than Congress provided in…

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