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Senate Appropriations Bill Would Fund Border Wall

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, November 10th, 2020

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Senate Appropriations Bill Would Fund Border Wall

Construction of steel bollards along a portion of the southern border during the Trump administration. Photo: CBP

Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) on Tuesday released all 12 fiscal year 2021 proposed funding bills for federal government, including a $50.1 billion budget for the Department of Homeland Security that would fully fund the Trump administration’s $2 billion request for the border wall system. The wall funding is likely a non-starter given that House Democrats, furious with President Trump’s reprogramming of billions of dollars from elsewhere in the federal budget for the wall, zeroed the request in…

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