1) Border Security Falls
Short
The legislation provides $1.571 billion for
“physical barriers and associated technology along the southern border
including to hire new border patrol agents and acquire new technology,
aircraft, sensors, and non-intrusive inspection equipment,” according to a
Republican Study Committee (RSC) document obtained by The Daily Caller News
Foundation.
That funding would include only $641
million for roughly 30 miles of new border wall security — under half of what
the president asked Congress for previously. In total, Congress is providing
grossly under the $25 billion the White House asked for construction of a
border wall and enhanced border security. From The Daily Caller