{"id":306217,"date":"2017-05-02T02:41:38","date_gmt":"2017-05-02T01:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-congress-allocates-no-money-for-trumps-border-wall\/"},"modified":"2017-05-02T02:41:38","modified_gmt":"2017-05-02T01:41:38","slug":"us-congress-allocates-no-money-for-trumps-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/us-congress-allocates-no-money-for-trumps-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"US Congress allocates no money for Trump&#039;s border wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color:#000000\">US Congress has ignored President Donald Trump\u2019s demand to fund his controversial campaign pledge of building a wall along the US-Mexico border in the first\u00a0<\/span>100 days of\u00a0the administration\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The leaders in the Republican-controlled Congress struck a more than one-trillion-dollar budget deal on Monday to avert a government shutdown until September, but fell short of allocating cash for Trump&#8217;s proposed border wall.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The agreement reached after weeks of tense negotiations, however, would allocate an additional 1.5 billion dollars for border security, which one congressional aide described as \u201cthe most robust border security increase in roughly a decade.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color:#000000\">The lawmakers in the House of Representatives and Senate are expected to approve the deal in the coming days and send it to the White House for the final signature.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align:center\">\n<figure style=\"display:inline-block\" class=\"image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"313\" width=\"555\" src=\"http:\/\/217.218.67.233\/\/photo\/20170501\/cfafc55e-3b7a-4224-9a23-cd14ff45142a.jpg\"\/><figcaption>US Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer speaks during a news conference at the US Capitol, on April 27, 2017 in Washington, DC&#8230;.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2017\/05\/02\/520222\/US-Congress-USMexico-border-wall-Donald-Trump-Chuck-Schumer\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US Congress has ignored President Donald Trump\u2019s demand to fund his controversial campaign pledge of building a wall along the US-Mexico border in the first\u00a0100 days of\u00a0the administration\u00a0 The leaders in the Republican-controlled Congress struck a more than one-trillion-dollar budget deal on Monday to avert a government shutdown until September, but fell short of allocating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":306218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-306217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}