The Senate has a bill….
The House HAD a bill….
But yesterday House Speaker Pelosi ran into problems with the above group of House members that has required her to add constraints on the Trump admin abilities to spend the money…No money was allocated for a Trump wall…But among some Democrats there is mistrust on where ANY money would go….With humanitarian issue in the media everyday and a Justice Dept. lawyer arguing against following a judges order to provide sleeping accommodations and toothpaste for migrant children?…They have a point…
House Democratic leaders agreed to amend a bill delivering emergency aid to address a humanitarian crisis at the southern border after angry liberals threatened to withhold their votes over the Trump administration’s treatment of migrant children at detention centers.
Assistant Speaker Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) emerged Monday from a nearly two-hour meeting involving members of the Congressional Progressive Caucus and the Congressional Hispanic Caucus — two groups that had expressed concerns about delivering additional funding to the Trump administration — and said a vote would proceed on Tuesday.
Changes to the $4.5 billion bill, he said, could be made before the vote to secure the necessary support from Democrats. “I think this bill will pass,” Lujan said.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called the meeting after news of poor conditions at U.S. Customs and Border Protection centers and President Trump’s threat of mass deportations cast doubt on whether Congress would be able to pass a border funding package before lawmakers leave Washington on Thursday for a week-long recess.
Rep. Raul Ruiz (D-Calif.) said Pelosi agreed to back changes to the bill detailing what constitutes humane treatment for migrant children in U.S. custody.
“There’s a way to change behavior rather than just funding a dysfunctional system,” he said. “If you give them soap and toothbrushes and yet the administration is arguing that these children do not need toothbrushes and soap, then you’re not going to change behavior. If you don’t mandate ‘allow them to bathe daily,’ then they’re still going to be without bathing for many days.”
Going into the meeting, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) attacked the idea that Congress would provide billions of dollars in more funding to detain unaccompanied children apprehended at the border. She cited numerous recent reports detailing the poor conditions at U.S. facilities.
“That’s not due to a lack of resources; that’s due to a desire — an active desire by this administration to hurt kids,” she said. “We need to stop funding the detention of children under any and all circumstances.”
But other Democrats have struck a more measured tone, with appropriators proposing nearly $1 billion for facilities, food, water and other humanitarian items and another $886 million for housing children outside shelters…..
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Is this a bluff?
The White House is threatening to veto a $4.5 billion House bill aimed at improving the treatment of migrant families detained after crossing the U.S. southern border, saying the measure would hamstring the administration’s border security efforts and raising fresh questions about the legislation’s fate.
The warning came as Hispanic and liberal Democrats press House leaders to add provisions to the legislation strengthening protections for migrant children, changes that might make the measure even less palatable to President Donald Trump. Though revisions are possible, House leaders are still hoping for approval as early as Tuesday.
The Senate planned to vote this week on similar legislation that has bipartisan backing, but many House Democrats say the Senate version’s provisions aimed at helping migrant children are not strong enough. House Democrats seeking changes met late Monday with Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif.
“Right now, the goal is really to stop — one death is just too much,” said Rep. Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y., as he left that meeting….
image…abcnews.go.com
Authorities in Texas reported seven migrant deaths on Monday, including those of a woman, two babies and a toddler, showing the danger of extreme summer heat as Central American families surge across the U.S.-Mexico border…
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Things are just getting worst at the border…
No wonder the Customs boss quit….
U.S. government officials say they’ve moved more than 100 kids back to a remote border facility where lawyers reported detained children were caring for each other and had inadequate food, water, and sanitation.
An official from U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Tuesday that the “majority” of the roughly 300 children detained at Clint, Texas, last week have been placed in facilities operated by the Office of Refugee Resettlement…
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Of course Pelosi gets the border funding bill passed in the House….
Let’s see what Trump and the Republicans do…
The Senate has it’s own bill…
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“The House passed a $4.5 billion bill funding food, water and shelter for people entering the U.S. at the southern border after Democrats pushed through last-minute changes to win support from progressive and Hispanic lawmakers,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“Passage in the House sets up a showdown with the GOP-controlled Senate, which is expected to take up its own version of the legislation this week. Immigration officials have warned that they could soon run out of money to process the large number of asylum seekers at the border, and lawmakers are set to leave Washington at the end of the week for a July 4 recess.”
Politicalwire…
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The US Senate has approved a border spending bill….The vote was 84-8….
The House just passed similar legislation, but the House bill , in a concession to to several members , would limit where the money could be spent..House Speaker Pelosi has spoken to Trump , who has said he might veto the bill….This is unlikely with the media reports and photo of a father and child drowned at the border….
Post coming later…