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Senate Budget Chairman Lindsey Graham’s recently released budget plan includes full funding for President Trump’s border wall proposal, seeking to head off a counterproposal that would offer just a fraction of the money Mr. Trump wants.
Mr. Graham’s plan includes $46.5 billion for the wall, as well as $45 billion in new money to help U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement carrying out Mr. Trump’s mass deportation plans, and added billions more for other immigration operations both at the border and the interior.
And the bill includes $10 billion to reimburse states for having to deal with the surge of illegal immigrants under President Biden, as well as some extra money to pay for Homeland Security coverage of upcoming sporting events such as next year’s soccer World Cup and the 2028 Olympics.
Sen. Rand Paul, chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, released his own proposal calling for just $6.5 billion in wall money, along with several billion dollars in other border funding for checkpoints and port technology.
Mr. Paul has complained that the administration’s estimate represents a threefold increase in wall-building costs, and he said the White House hasn’t justified that.
Mr. Graham said a “terrific” briefing by White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller did answer those questions.
“As budget chairman, I will do my best to ensure that the president’s border security plan is fully funded because I believe it has been fully justified,” the South Carolina Republican said. “The president promised to secure our border. His plan fulfills that promise. The Senate must do our part.” --->READ MORE HERE
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'Sen. Graham's job, as he sees it, is to do what the president tells him to do, and my job is to do what I think is fiscally most responsible,' Sen Rand Paul says
Sen. Lindsey Graham is pushing forward to fund President Donald Trump’s border security agenda despite objections from a key Senate Republican who wants to cut the spending in half.
The South Carolina Republican, who chairs the Senate Budget Committee, unveiled the Senate’s plan to fund the president’s border security desires, with billions of dollars slated to go toward building a wall at the Southern border, beefing up Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) detention capacity and hiring more Border Patrol Agents, among others.
But Graham’s decision to plow ahead with the Senate Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs Committee’s $128.4 billion bill, which funds the lion's share of the administration’s border security request, comes after the committee’s chair, Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., proposed to cut half the funding baked into the House GOP’s bill.
Paul’s concerns mobilized White House Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Stephen Miller to hold a closed-door meeting with Senate Republicans on Thursday to justify the price tag.
"As Budget Chairman, I will do my best to ensure that the President’s border security plan is fully funded because I believe it has been fully justified," Graham said in a statement to Fox News Digital. "I respectfully disagree with Chairman Paul’s proposal to cut the Trump plan by more than 50 percent."
"The President promised to secure our border," he continued. "His plan fulfills that promise. The Senate must do our part."
The Homeland Security Committee accounts for the bulk of the White House’s $150 billion request, but not all. The remaining money is expected to come from the Senate Judiciary and Commerce committees. --->READ MORE HEREFollow link below to a relevant story:
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