“Now, Republican Senators are trying to capitalize on the urgency of the moment to backfill these accounts.”
U. S. Republicans’ $1 trillion coronavirus relief proposal proposes billions of dollars for the military, including hundreds of millions to restore funding shifted from the Defense Department to pay for President Donald Trump’s Mexican border wall.
Trump has made strict controls on immigration a signature issue of his presidency, and fight for re-election in November. To fund the wall he has promised to build on the border with Mexico, the Republican declared a national emergency to redirect funds from the Pentagon to the project.
Republicans and Democrats both objected, but were unable to gather enough votes to override Trump’s veto of a bill to stop it.
