This was always expected to be the hard part, where Republicans who have control of the House and Senate begin to fill in the difficult details of what, until now, has simply been a framework for Trump's tax package at the cornerstone of the GOP's domestic agenda. Democrats are fighting back in the House and Senate, and the halls of public opinion, but as the minority party in Congress, they have little ability to stop the forward march of the package. Central to the Homeland Committee's section of the legislation is $46.5 billion to revive construction of Trump's wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, with some 700 miles of “primary” wall, 900 miles of river barriers, and more.
Author: Lisa Mascaro
Published at: 2025-04-29 22:34:45
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