House Freedom Caucus Pushes Short-Term Spending Bill To Avoid 'Bad Border Deal'

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By Tierney Sneed
February 13, 2019 3:26 pm

The House Freedom Caucus on Wednesday introduced a short-term spending bill to keep the government open for an extra week as lawmakers weigh this week’s bipartisan border deal that the conservative hardliners find “frustrating.”

“Like many of my colleagues, I am frustrated that this current proposal ignores input from experts on our southern border,” Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ), the proposal’s sponsor, said in a statement. “I introduced this short-term continuing resolution — a spending bill — to provide time to negotiate more effective border security without the threat of another government shutdown.”

The proposal was announced in a press release with the subject line “HFC introduces CR as funding alternative to bad border deal.”


Earlier this week, a conference committee of House and Senate negotiators announced they’d come to an agreement in principle on the border that would avert another shutdown later this week. The deal would allocate $1.375 billion for 55 miles of a border fence – well below the $5.7 billion President Trump demanded as part of the 35 day partial government shutdown that ended last month.

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