The Trump assistant driving the migrant ‘Mass’ Sweeps went to Congress/US Senate, looking for more money for his boss and HIS efforts, and came out chewed up and told ‘We ain’t just giving you guys a blank check’….
The House might have,,,,
The Senate IS asking question’s….
A bitter feud is escalating between Republican Sen. Rand Paul and Donald Trump’s top border official, injecting uncertainty into Congress’s attempt to pass the administration’s signature policy bill this month.
Key Trump adviser Stephen Miller came to Capitol Hill to meet with Senate Republicans on Thursday to resolve a disagreement over money for the bill’s border security provisions.
Paul and Miller have been locked in a dispute for days over the border funding. The White House is seeking $150 billion in funds for border security and deportation. But Paul – who chairs the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee – has repeatedly lashed out against the price tag of Trump’s bill and wants to dramatically cut down that funding.
And on Thursday night, Paul released his portion of the sweeping bill that includes a fraction of what Miller and the White House are demanding for border security, contending an additional $39 billion in new spending will deliver “real border security without fueling Washington’s addiction to waste.”
Now, GOP leaders will look to overrule Paul and change the bill to meet White House demands when they include the proposal in the larger Trump policy bill – all as tension between Miller and the Kentucky senator has been spilling out in the open…
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Paul’s strong push to limit Trump’s border security cash puts him mostly on an island among Hill Republicans, according to one person familiar with the talks, though other GOP senators pressed Miller about specific funding accounts in a meeting earlier Thursday. And the back-and-forth has frustrated some of their fellow GOP senators.
Oklahoma Sen. Markwayne Mullin said Miller “did a good job” answering GOP senators’ questions on Thursday about border wall money, but he added some Republicans “were upset” or “just didn’t want to hear it.”….
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One of those probing Miller on the border funding was GOP Sen. Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, another fiscal hawk who has been working to make sure Trump’s pricey tax breaks don’t add to the deficit.
“The numbers didn’t quite add up,” Johnson later told reporters of his questions to Miller. “He did a really good job of explaining why it is going to be more expensive, but then just how difficult it is going to be to create the beds and the expense of that.”
“There was just some basic numbers that we weren’t aware of. We didn’t have the math. We didn’t have their calculation. I think he was a little blindsided from that standpoint.”….
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