Guess what? It’s for feeding, clothing, housing and providing lawyers for the illegal aliens. Not for security. So with that and the complicit action of Mexico and countries like Guatemala, we will have hundreds of thousands coming…
Via NY Post:
WASHINGTON — President Obama’s $3.7 billion emergency request for the border crisis is too big and the House won’t approve it, the chairman of the House committee that controls spending said Friday.
“It’s too much money. We don’t need it,” Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers, (R-Ky.), told reporters.
“There are pieces of it that need to be dealt with immediately and that’s what we’re working on,” Rogers said, but when asked whether the House would approve the spending package as-is, he said “no.”
Rogers’ comments to reporters underscore the challenges ahead as Obama pushes Congress to approve the money to deal with tens of thousands of unaccompanied minors showing up at the U.S. border with Mexico. Many are fleeing gang violence in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, and are drawn by rumors that once here they could stay.