Senate Republicans clash over Trump’s border wall funding proposal

First on Fox: Senator Lindsey Graham Pushes forward to finance the president Donald Trump Agenda for border security despite the objections of a key republican of the Senate who wants to reduce expenses in two.

The Republican of South Carolina, who chairs the Senate budget committee, unveiled the Senate plan to finance the president border security Desires, with billions of dollars planning to build a wall on the southern border, strengthening the ability to detention of immigration and customs (ICE) and hiring more border patrol agents, among others.

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But Graham’s decision to advance the bill of $ 128.4 billion in the Senate for internal security and government affairs, which finances the share of the lion of the border security request of the administration, intervenes after the chairman of the committee, Senator Rand PaulR-kY., Proposed to reduce half of the funding cooked in the invoice of the GOP house.

Paul’s concerns mobilized the deputy chief of staff of the White House for the Stephen Miller policy to hold a closed-door meeting with the Senate Republicans on Thursday to justify the prize.

“As president of the budget, I will do my best to make sure that the president’s border security plan is entirely funded because I think it was fully justified,” Graham said in a statement to Fox News Digital. “I respectfully disagree with President Paul’s proposal to reduce the Trump plan by more than 50%.”

“The president has promised to obtain our border,” he continued. “His plan keeps this promise. The Senate must make our part.”

The internal security committee represents most of the demand of $ 150 billion in the White House, but not all. The remaining money should come from the judicial and commercial committees of the Senate.

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Graham’s bill, which closely reflects the version of the GOP house, includes $ 46.5 billion in funding to build the border wall and additional infrastructure, $ 4.1 billion to hire more border patrol agents, $ 2 billion for retention and bonus signature for new agents, $ 5 billion to improve facilities border patrol and $ 855 million to repair the scourge of border border border vehicles.

The measure also includes $ 45 billion to strengthen ICE’s detention capacity, $ 6 billion to improve border surveillance, $ 6 billion at the Ministry of Homeland Security to “ensure adequate funding for border security in all areas” and $ 10 billion in subsidies to reimburse states for border security efforts during Biden years.

Paul, who did not attend Miller’s meeting with the Senate Republicans, said that the White House “had thrown a number on the wall to see what would remain” and that some line articles, such as the tens of billions for the construction of the border wall, could be considerably reduced to around $ 6.5 billion during the cost of construction cost by Mile.

He presented his number at the GOP of the Senate on Wednesday and noted that there were “half a dozen senators” who agreed with him.

When asked why Graham and management chose to jump him as chairman of the committee to release the text from the bill, he said “because they disagree with me”.

“I think that the work of Senator Graham, as he sees, is to do what the president tells him to do, and my work is to do what I think is the most responsible tax,” he said. “And so we just have different programs.”

Republicans of the Senate are producing their version of “Big, Beautiful Bill” of the Gop house. They use the process of budget reconciliation to adopt a radical bill progressing Trump’s agenda on taxes, immigration, energy, defense and national debt. They also work to use it to lower the national debt – nearly 37 billions of dollars – in order to reduce 1.5 billion of dollars in federal expenses.

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But everything that comes from the Senate must pass the gathering with the room before going to the office of Trump.

And Miller’s meeting with the GOP of the Senate was supposed to strengthen the support of detailed financing in the Bill of the Chamber and respond to the persistent concerns of tax hawks which are trying to find ways to further reduce expenses in the reconciliation process.

Senator Markwayne Mullin, R-OKLA., Hailed Miller after the meeting, but noted that there were legislators who “were upset, and others who simply did not want to hear”.

“I mean, Rand Paul’s solution is to cut everything in half and call it well,” he said. “It is not real budgeting.”

Senator Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Said that there was “a little frustration” of certain legislators who wanted to see a financing spreadsheet. He rejected the idea that the meeting has become tense and said “that there is no way to calculate precisely what the administration will need” to clean “the huge mess” left by the Biden administration.

“If anything, we may need to need more. It’s such a big problem,” said Johnson. “I don’t think we are going to raise the number, but we are not going to shorten it.”

“It’s a mess that we have to clean,” he said. “It will cost a lot of money, and we want to make sure that this administration has money to clean.”