{"id":317215,"date":"2017-07-13T21:49:46","date_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/winning-house-committee-approves-funding-for-border-wall\/"},"modified":"2017-07-13T21:49:46","modified_gmt":"2017-07-13T20:49:46","slug":"winning-house-committee-approves-funding-for-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/winning-house-committee-approves-funding-for-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"WINNING: House Committee Approves Funding for Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p>House Appropriations Committee approves $1.6 billion for \u2018physical barrier construction\u2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>Adan Salazar<\/strong><br \/>Prison Planet.com<br \/>July 13, 2017<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wall-trump620.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wall-trump620.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"620\" height=\"320\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-293039\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wall-trump620.jpg 620w, https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wall-trump620-300x155.jpg 300w, https:\/\/hw.prisonplanet.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/wall-trump620-90x46.jpg 90w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Trump administration scored another victory Wednesday as the House Appropriations Committee approved $1.6 billion to be allocated toward construction of a southern border wall.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The bill met the White House\u2019s funding request in full and provides for a \u201cphysical barrier construction along the Southern border \u2013 including bollards and levee improvements,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/appropriations.house.gov\/news\/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=394983\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> Tuesday ahead of the bill\u2019s approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKeeping Americans safe by protecting our homeland is a top priority. This funding bill provides the resources to begin building a wall along our southern border, enhance our existing border security infrastructure, hire more border patrol agents, and fund detention operations,\u201d said House Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman John Carter. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdditionally, this bill will increase funding for Immigration and Customs Enforcement, support grants in cases of emergency and natural disaster, and provide critical resources to protect our cyber networks.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The construction of a wall between the US and Mexico has long been a central Trump administration promise, and the president celebrated the news in a tweet calling the committee\u2019s decision a \u201cBig WIN for building the wall.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Big WIN today for building the wall. It will secure the border &amp; save lives. Now the full House &amp; Senate must act! \u27a1\ufe0f<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TTg7lvBdo2\">https:\/\/t.co\/TTg7lvBdo2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xhiknXko70\">pic.twitter.com\/xhiknXko70<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/realDonaldTrump\/status\/885278633014812673\">July 12, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cIt will secure the border &amp; save lives. Now the full House &amp; Senate must act!\u201d Trump said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump made headlines last week when he stated that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.infowars.com\/trump-says-mexico-will-absolutely-pay-for-wall-while-seated-next-to-mexican-president\/\" target=\"_blank\">Mexico would \u201cabsolutely\u201d pay for the wall<\/a> during the G20 conference \u2013 while seated beside Mexico President Enrique Pe\u00f1a Nieto. <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-video\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Mr. Trump, do you still&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/winning-house-approves-funding-for-border-wall.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Appropriations Committee approves $1.6 billion for \u2018physical barrier construction\u2019 Adan SalazarPrison Planet.comJuly 13, 2017 The Trump administration scored another victory Wednesday as the House Appropriations Committee approved $1.6 billion to be allocated toward construction of a southern border wall. The bill met the White House\u2019s funding request in full and provides for a \u201cphysical [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-317215","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317215","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=317215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}