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Trump Administration Eyes $6.6 Billion Border Funding Request

  • Plan would include $1 billion for U.S.-Mexico border wall
  • Request is down payment for president’s border-security plan
Vehicles drive past a section of a border fence that separates the U.S. and Mexico in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Feb. 17.

Vehicles drive past a section of a border fence that separates the U.S. and Mexico in Sunland Park, New Mexico, on Feb. 17.

Photographer: Luke Sharrett/Bloomberg

President Donald Trump’s administration is preparing a request for as much as $6.6 billion for a down payment on his promises to build a wall at the U.S.-Mexico border and crack down on undocumented immigrants.

The supplemental request may be sent to Congress as early as next week, according to people familiar with the plan. That would jump-start a debate in Congress over the president’s far-reaching proposals, the costs, and which undocumented immigrants to target for deportation.