The US House of Representatives has passed a bill to avert another partial government shutdown with bipartisan spending legislation that funds new barriers for part of the US-Mexico border, but not the $5.7bn that President Donald Trump sought for a wall.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives on Thursday Feb 14,2019 backed the
bill 300-128, with 86 House Republicans voting in favour.
The Democratic-led House of Representatives vote
followed an earlier approval by the Republican-led Senate, 83-16.
Thursday's bill does not provide the $5.7bn request for Trump's border
wall - a demand that triggered the previous shutdown, which lasted for
35 days. Democrats oppose the wall, calling it ineffective, immoral and
expensive.
A border wall was a central 2016 campaign promise by Trump. He originally said Mexico would pay for the wall along the 3,200km border, an idea Mexico dismissed.
As the Senate prepared to vote on the bill, Senate
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told the chamber that Trump said he
would sign the bill and would also declare a national emergency to build
his border wall.
The US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat, immediately hit back, saying Democrats were prepared to respond appropriately to a national emergency declaration.
Nancy Pelosi said there was not a crisis at the border with Mexico that required an emergency order
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