Conference Committee Working on Border Security Funding Schedules First Meeting
Tuesday, January 29, 2019
Formal House and Senate negotiations are set to begin tomorrow over the President's demand that Congress appropriate more than $8 BILLION in additional Fiscal Year 2019 funding for border security, a demand that famously includes a request for a $5.7 BILLION appropriation for construction of a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico. |
Tomorrow's action is set to occur in a conference committee that was established late last week to iron out differences between the President and Democrats in Congress over the President's border security funding demands. The conferees will be working under a deadline of February 15, 2019, when the short-term continuing appropriations resolution that re-opened the closed functions of the federal government expires.