Tentative Deal on Border Security Reached in Bid to Avoid Shutdown
- Plan includes $1.375 billion for border barrier, aides say
- Trump support remains wild card in talks over border wall
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Congressional negotiators reached a tentative deal on border security that would give President Donald Trump far less money than he’d demanded for new barriers and would avert another government shutdown.
Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby said lawmakers agreed on all seven spending bills needed to keep government agencies open, including the Department of Homeland Security that oversees border protection.