Democrats' Wall Funding Lawsuit Runs Into a Skeptical U.S. Judge
- Washington judge hears three hours of arguments on Thursday
- House fighting to block Trump’s plan to reallocate funds
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A U.S. House of Representatives attempt to block President Donald Trump from spending about $6.1 billion on a southern border wall ran into what could be a major obstacle of its own Thursday -- a skeptical federal judge.
The Democrat-led chamber asked U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden in Washington to bar the administration from reallocating the money from other Defense Department projects in the wake of Congress’s outright refusal to give the president all the funding he sought for the project.