PhatMack19 Posted January 4, 2019 Report Posted January 4, 2019 This is the hidden content, please Sign In or Sign Up Quote: The White House said Thursday that if House Democrats were to pass a spending proposal that would reopen the government without offering billions of dollars for Donald Trump's border wall, he would likely issue his first presidential veto. The House is expected to pass the legislation Thursday night. Trump wants the same $5.69 billion package for his border barrier project that the House passed last month when Republicans were still in charge. Democrats took over the chamber Thursday afternoon following a power shift in November's elections.They are offering 'nothing for the wall,' Speaker Nancy Pelosi told NBC this week. But the Office of Management and Budget complained in a policy statement Thursday afternoon that their bill includes $21.8 billion of spending on projects Trump never asked for in his 2019 budget proposal. Quote: The Administration is committed to working with the Congress to reopen lapsed agencies, but cannot accept legislation that provides unnecessary funding for wasteful programs while ignoring the Nation's urgent border security needs,' OMB said in its statement. The 'unnecessary' spending includes $12 billion more than Trump requested for international affairs programs. Democrats have earmarked about $2.9 billion of that for economic and development assistance including money dstined for the West Bank and Gaza, Syria, and Pakistan. 'Our foreign aid is either frozen or under review' in those places, OMB noted. The Democrats' spending bill also includes an extra $700 million for the United Nations, including restored funding for the UN Population Fund. The State Department cut off that money in April 2017, claiming the agency was assisting with 'a program of coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization.' The bill adds $2 billion to the Environmental Protection Agency and $7.1 billion beyond the White House's request for Department of Housing and Urban Development rental assistance programs. 'These and other excessive spending items makes the lack of adequate border funding in the combined package all the more unacceptable,' OMB said. Quote: Trump infuriated reporters by taking no questions. But he shared the podium with leaders of the National Border Patrol Council, the labor union that supports border guards. 'I can personally tell you, from the work that I have done on the southwest border, that physical barriers that walls actually work,' said the group's president, Brandon Judd. OMB cited immigration statistics hours later to justify Trump's hard-line position, saying an average of 2,000 people cross the U.S.-Mexico border illegally every day.In the past two fiscal years, the agency added, 'Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrested close to 211,000 aliens convicted of criminal offenses and an additional 55,000 aliens charged with criminal offenses.' Quote
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