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RSS FeedsUS House Passes Emergency Funding Bill for Migrant Care Crisis
(World News USA)

 
 

26 june 2019 09:13:17

 
US House Passes Emergency Funding Bill for Migrant Care Crisis
(World News USA)
 


It took last-minute changes and a full-court press by top Democratic leaders, but the House passed with relative ease Tuesday a $4.5 billion emergency border aid package to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children detained after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The bill passed along party lines after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi quelled a mini-revolt by progressives and Hispanic lawmakers who sought significant changes to the legislation. New provisions added to the bill Tuesday were more modest than what those lawmakers had sought, but the urgent need for the funding - to prevent the humanitarian emergency on the border from turning into a debacle - appeared to...


 
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