border wall funding

U.S. Representative Chip Roy (R-TX) submitted an amendment to the INVEST in America Act to divert $5.7 billion in member-designated projects, commonly known as earmarks, to establish a border wall fund in the U.S. Treasury.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) took to Twitter Saturday and accused President Trump of “stealing money” from military families as part of his administration’s effort to secure the U.S. southern border.

MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough on Thursday took aim at GOP members of Congress, calling them “weak” for allowing Trump to divert funding meant for their states to build the wall at the southern border.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) announced Tuesday that he will ask President Donald Trump to use his $5 billion set aside for border wall construction to combat gun violence and white supremacy.

President Donald Trump is not happy that former House Speaker Paul Ryan blocked subpoenas of people and entities Trump thinks the House GOP should have been investigating during the first two years of his administration.

Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) told Breitbart News Sunday that then-House Speaker Paul Ryan “tricked” President Donald Trump into thinking that a spending bill with wall funding could not pass through the House of Representatives.

Border Patrol agents in the Yuma Sector apprehended a previously deported criminal alien who exploited outdated barrier fencing to re-enter the U.S. Agents later determined the Mexican man was convicted by a California court for involuntary manslaughter.

Harvard law professor Lawrence Lessig called President Donald Trump a “national emergency” following the president’s statement that he was considering declaring a state of emergency regarding the border crisis.

While President Donald Trump visited the Rio Grande Valley Thursday to make the case for a $5.7 billion wall that is part of a comprehensive border security package, a group of residents nearby banded together and raised $12,000 to help pay for the construction.

“This should have been done by all of the presidents preceding me,” Trump said. “We’re not playing games; we have to do it.”

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway on Wednesday’s “Fox & Friends” said President Donald Trump “is not softening his stance” on the border security wall in the wake of the possibility he does not shut down the government over funding for the wall. “[T]his

Monday on “Fox & Friends,” House Freedom Caucus co-founder Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) predicted there would not be a government shutdown over the $5 billion border wall funding. Jordan was asked for a “one-word prediction” on if the government would

“After 40 years of talk, it is finally time for action,” Trump wrote on Twitter. “Fix the Border, for once and for all, NOW!”

Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) won the West Virginia Senate race on Tuesday, beating West Virginia Attorney General and Republican candidate Patrick Morrisey.

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) said on Monday during an appearance at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, that there will be a “big fight” over funding for the construction of a wall on the U.S. border with Mexico after the midterms.

Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney in an appearance Thursday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” said President Donald Trump was telling the truth when he claimed the government would stay open despite the lack of border wall funding in the

President Trump’s populist immigration agenda and pleas for funding for a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border have continued to go ignored heading into the 2018 midterm elections.

“I want to know, where is the money for Border Security and the WALL in this ridiculous Spending Bill, and where will it come from after the Midterms?” Trump wrote on Twitter.