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WorldPosted at: Jun 26 2019 10:07AM


US House passes 4.5 bn dollar emergency border aid bill

Washington, Jun 26 (UNI) The US House of Representatives has passed a 4.5 billion Dollar emergency border aid package to care for thousands of migrant families and unaccompanied children detained after crossing the US-Mexico border.
The bill passed by a vote of 230 to 195 on Tuesday along party lines, after the 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 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 outweigh any lingering concerns.
The vote sets up a showdown with the Republican-led Senate, which may try instead to force Democrats to send Trump a different, and broadly bipartisan, companion measure in coming days as the chambers race to wrap up the must-do legislation by the end of the week.
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