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Trump demands $5.7 bn for steel barrier on US-Mexico border
WASHINGTON, Jan 9, 2019 (BSS/AFP) – US President Donald Trump on Tuesday
repeated his demand for $5.7 billion in funding for a wall on the border with
Mexico, but stopped short of calling for a much-touted state of emergency.
“As part of an overall approach to border security, law enforcement
professionals have requested $5.7 billion for a physical barrier,” Trump said
in a rare address to the nation from the Oval Office.
Trump had spent days mulling declaring a state of emergency along the
border that would have given him powers to bypass Congress, which has so far
refused to fund the wall project, and draw funds from the military to build
the border barrier.
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