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Border politics threaten push to boost spending on migrant aid
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s human rights record despite diplomatic boycotts from the U.S., the U.K. and other nations, and calls from Republican lawmakers that companies including Airbnb Inc., The Coca-Cola Co., Comcast Corp.’s
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., to modify his consent request to include confirmation of several stalled diplomatic nominees including Nicholas Burns to serve as the U.S. ambassador to China.
Bob Menendez, D-N.J., the Foreign Relations Committee chairman and chief sponsor of Biden’s comprehensive immigration legislation (S 348).
Christopher S. Murphy, D-Conn., and Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, part of a bipartisan border delegation last Friday, have made similar calls for more transparency.
The Republican senators said the president’s freeze on construction was a “blatant violation of federal law and infringe(s) on Congress’s constitutional power of the purse.”