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Trump expected to seek
$8.6B for border wall in
new budget
By LISA MASCARO
AP Congressional Correspondent
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump will seek
$8.6 billion in his new budget to build the U.S.-Mexico bor-
der wall, two administration officials said Sunday, setting
up another showdown with Congress, which has resisted
giving him more money for his signature campaign prom-
ise.
The request would more than double the $8.1 billion al-
ready potentially available to the president after he de-
clared a national emergency at the border in order to
circumvent Congress once lawmakers refused his funding
demands. That standoff led to a 35-day partial govern-
ment shutdown, the longest in U.S. history.
In this March 6, 2019, photo, President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office of the White House
in Washington.
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