Two Trump administration officials said they ran out of money to Republican senators at the Closure Door Ranch meeting on Tuesday to secure the border, and Congress soon passed $175 billion to complete the US-Mexico border wall. , an agent who said they need to hire more law enforcement agencies.
Trump's “border emperor” Tom Homan and his White House budget overseer Russell Vert told GOP lawmakers before Republicans get more money to secure north and south boundaries. warned that they could not wait for more months to reach an agreement on the complicated tax package.
“The problem we have now, we're short on money,” Senate Budget Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (Rs.C.) said after a meeting with Homan and Vought, reporter He told the group.
“Tom Homan said, 'I'm asking you for money,” Las Vault said, 'We're short on money. [Immigration and Customs Enforcement]we can't take away any other accounts anymore,” Graham said.
Graham reported that Homan explained that new money from Congress would help law enforcement track an estimated 300,000 children smuggled into the US and separated from their parents.
“We have 300,000 children that we want to find, and if we can find them right away, we'll end their abuse,” Graham said. “For Americans, if you want to track down these 300,000 immigrant children who are missing from your government, you need more money to do that.”
Graham will also provide more money to congress to complete the US Mexican border wall and hire immigration and customs enforcement (ICE) agents, deport immigrants accused of criminal activity He said it was necessary.
He urged speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) to invite Homan to join, speaking to Republicans, splitting Trump's legislative agenda into two packages, focusing on border security. He ordered him to persuade him to move the one he hit.
Graham will mark up budgetary resolutions that lay the foundation for the Senate to pass budget adjustment packages with a simple majority vote that will fund border security, expand oil and gas drilling and boost defence spending. is.
But Johnson wants to move Trump's agenda into one package that includes border security, energy reform, defense, and an extension of the 2017 expiration tax cuts and employment law.
On Tuesday, Johnson called Graham's budget plan a “non-starter” home.
“There will be nothing to please me with the big, beautiful bill by the house where we did everything we needed to do to make us thrive and safe,” Graham said on Tuesday. “He said, but he warned that the administration could run out of money.
“I'm urging them to the speakers and letting them know what they said to us,” Graham said.
“I'm going to do what I think is best with my colleagues to make America safe,” he said. “I heard Tom Homan, a pretty tough guy, asking us for money… I'm Russ Vert. [Office of Management and Budget] Guy, tell me that ice is running out of money. ”
