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Congress Passes Border Funding Bill

Congress Passes Border Funding Bill

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The US House passed a four point six-billion-dollar emergency funding bill for border security last week just before they left Washington for the July fourth holiday.
South Dakota Congressman Dusty Johnson says democrats finally allowed the bill to come up for a vote…

Johnson says they were facing a deadline….

Johnson says stories of children being held in poor conditions and the migrant father and daughter who died in the Rio Grande River didn’t really have an impact on the vote….

About three billion dollars goes to the Department of Health and Human Services with just over one billion for the Customs and Border Patrol.

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