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House Homeland Security Panel Approves DHS Spending Bill Along Party Lines

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, July 7th, 2020

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House Homeland Security Panel Approves DHS Spending Bill Along Party Lines

The House Appropriations Homeland Security Subcommittee on Tuesday morning approved by voice vote along party lines a $50.7 billion spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security in fiscal year 2021, the dividing line between Democrats and Republicans being a zeroing of funding for a border wall and a sharp reduction in funding for immigration enforcement. The same divisions have plagued previous DHS spending bills during the presidency of Trump, who campaigned in 2016 on a promise to build a…

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