Pelosi Statement on Republican Appropriations Bill to Fund President Trump’s Border Wall

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Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after Republicans on the House Appropriations Committee unveiled a bill that includes $1.6 billion in taxpayer funds for President Trump’s border wall:

“Once again, Republicans are trying to put American taxpayers on the hook for the multi-billion dollar boondoggle President Trump swore Mexico would pay for. President Trump is breaking his promise and sticking the American people with the bill.

“President Trump’s immoral, ineffective and expensive wall is strongly opposed by Democrats and by many Republicans as well. A wall of bipartisan opposition is the only thing House Republicans are trying to build here.”