Sentences with phrase «sought border wall»
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It is widely - known that US President Donald Trump has taken a hard line on immigration and is seeking to build a US - Mexico border wall.
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Instead of the $ 25 billion Trump sought for the border wall, Congress has set aside just $ 1.6 billion in its omnibus spending bill.
With Congress stalemated over immigration, Flake earlier this week sought to force a Senate vote on temporarily protecting «Dreamer» immigrants from being deported, while financing Trump's border wall for three years, but another Republican blocked Flake's effort.
President Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.
The other executive action seeks to make good on another of Trump's promises: to construct a wall (or at least some kind of barrier) along the Mexican border.
The mailer includes Trump quotes about a wall along the U.S. - Mexican border he says he'll make Mexicans pay for, and his comments that «there has to be some form of punishment» for women who seek abortions.
Scotland will host a meeting of Arctic Circle nations for the first time next month as Nicola Sturgeon seeks to forge closer ties with the region ahead of A Hadrian's Wall - style border might have to be built to stop illegal migrants flooding into England if Scotland gets independence.
President Donald Trump pledged swift federal aid to Texas and Louisiana on Monday as the two states seek to recover from Hurricane Harvey, and dismissed the notion that his threatened shutdown of the government over border wall funding could impact the effort.
President Donald Trump said Monday that he would seek billions of dollars in assistance to rebuild Texas and Louisiana from the flooding caused by Hurricane Harvey but renewed his threat to shut down the government if Congress won't agree to begin building a wall on the Mexican border.
The framework that Trump and congressional Republicans plan to release Wednesday would form the starting point for the tax debate in the coming months, which comes as the administration seeks a legislative victory in 2017 after failing to repeal Obamacare or win full funding to build a wall on the southern border.