House Democrats apparently have no issue with funding border security so long as it isn’t the American border they’re securing.
H.R. 2740, the massive $984.7 billion spending bill that was passed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in June, goes out of its way to ensure the President Trump does not use any of the funds it appropriates for building his promised border wall between the United States and Mexico.
On page 304, the bill reads “None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or any prior Department of Defense appropriations Acts may be used to construct a wall, fence, border barriers, or border security infrastructure along the southern land border of the United States.”
That bill merged the appropriations bills for the Departments of Defense, State, Energy, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services.
Just a month later, the House Appropriations Committee sent the full House a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Although the president requested that the $63.8 billion bill include $5 billion for use in constructing barriers along the border, the legislation instead was imbued with the stipulation that “no funding is provided in the bill for new physical barriers along the southwest border.”
The committee report also said that “the recommendation provides no funding for additional Border Patrol Agents.”
Yet H.R. 2740 does provide for border security, albeit not the border of the United States.
The bill creates a $1.25 billion fund for use by the U.S. secretary of defense for the purpose of protecting Middle Eastern countries from the Islamic State — including by funding “border security”:
H.R. 2740, the massive $984.7 billion spending bill that was passed by the Democrat-controlled House of Representatives in June, goes out of its way to ensure the President Trump does not use any of the funds it appropriates for building his promised border wall between the United States and Mexico.
On page 304, the bill reads “None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act or any prior Department of Defense appropriations Acts may be used to construct a wall, fence, border barriers, or border security infrastructure along the southern land border of the United States.”
That bill merged the appropriations bills for the Departments of Defense, State, Energy, Labor, Education, and Health and Human Services.
Just a month later, the House Appropriations Committee sent the full House a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.
Although the president requested that the $63.8 billion bill include $5 billion for use in constructing barriers along the border, the legislation instead was imbued with the stipulation that “no funding is provided in the bill for new physical barriers along the southwest border.”
The committee report also said that “the recommendation provides no funding for additional Border Patrol Agents.”
Yet H.R. 2740 does provide for border security, albeit not the border of the United States.
The bill creates a $1.25 billion fund for use by the U.S. secretary of defense for the purpose of protecting Middle Eastern countries from the Islamic State — including by funding “border security”:
