GOP Senators Threaten to Withhold Support From Spending Bill Over Lack of Border Wall Funding; 5 Senate Republicans Vow to Withhold Support From Spending Bill Over Border Wall Funding

GOP senators threaten to withhold support from spending bill over lack of border wall funding:

Five Republican senators say they will withhold their support from any omnibus spending package due to what they say is a failure to adequately fund border security — pointing specifically to a lack of funding for the wall at the southern border.

In a letter to fellow senators to be sent on Monday, Sens. Mike Braun, R-Ind., Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Mike Lee, R-Utah, Cynthia Lummis, R-Wyo., and Ted Cruz, R-Texas., say funding proposals released by the Senate Appropriations Committee “fail to provide America’s border agents with the proper security infrastructure necessary to defend America’s southern border from the continued crisis of unrestrained illegal migration.”

“The failure to provide sufficient resources is a continuation of the Biden-Harris Administration’s inability and unwillingness to acknowledge the humanitarian and national security risks created by its open-border policies,” they write in the letter exclusively obtained by Fox News. “We write to indicate that we will withhold support of any negotiated Fiscal Year 2022 omnibus funding agreement that fails to appropriately fund our nation’s border security.”

The U.S. has been facing a dramatic and continuing crisis at the southern border, with more than 1.7 million migrant encounters in FY 2021, and more than 192,000 migrant encounters in September. —>READ MORE HERE

Senate Republicans vow to withhold support from spending bill over border wall funding:

Five Senate Republicans say they will withhold support for any 2022 spending bill to fund the government — unless money for former President Trump’s signature wall at the southern border is included.

In a letter to their colleagues, Senators Ted Cruz (R-Texas), Mike Braun (R-Indiana), Marco Rubio (R-Florida), Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Cynthia Lummis (R-Wyoming) said a government funding proposal released by the Democrat-controlled Senate Appropriations Committee was inadequate.

The story was first reported by Fox News.

“The failure to provide sufficient resources is a continuation of the Biden-Harris Administration’s inability and unwillingness to acknowledge the humanitarian and national security risks created by its open-border policies,” the elected officials wrote. “We write to indicate that we will withhold support of any negotiated Fiscal Year 2022 omnibus funding agreement that fails to appropriately fund our nation’s border security.” —>READ MORE HERE

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