House Balks at Obama’s Full $3.7 Billion Border Request
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Republicans in Congress say they won’t give President Barack Obama the full $3.7 billion he’s seeking to cope with thousands of immigrant children crossing the U.S.-Mexico border -- at least not any time soon.
House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers of Kentucky said yesterday that Obama’s plan costs too much and that there are only “pieces of it that need to be dealt with immediately.”