Podcast: Wall Funding That Isn’t Coming From Mexico

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Podcast: Wall Funding That Isn’t Coming From Mexico

CQ Budget, Episode 70

Aurelia Lopez and her daughter Antonia overlook construction of U.S.-Mexico border wall prototypes in October 2017. (Sandy Huffaker/Getty Images file photo)

By David Lerman and Dean DeChiaro

Posted July 23, 2018 at 10:13am

House appropriators are set to give President Donald Trump some of the border wall funding he’s been seeking, says CQ immigration reporter Dean DeChiaro. He explains what’s in the Homeland Security spending bill.

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