$1.3B Border Barrier Spending to Avert Government Shutdown
Embraced by Trump, a border wall spending deal averted another round of government shutdown. CNN lists what entails in the spending: $1.375 billion will cover roughly 55 miles of new barrier strategically placed -- including parts of the Rio Grande Valley, which had been a priority for the White House. The 55 miles is twice the amount allocated in the last spending agreement, but 10 miles less than the bipartisan Senate Homeland Security funding bill from 2018 that Trump rej