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Republican senators push back over Trump's border wall of $ 46 billion

Republican senators push back over Trump's border wall of $ 46 billion

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In the claim of the Trump government to the “safest border in history”, some Republicans of the Senate are asked why DHS needs billions for a border wall.

The Department of Homeland Security asked Congress by $ 45.6 billion to build hundreds of other miles on the southern border as part of a comprehensive tax and expenditure calculation that the house has passed and is discussed in the Senate.

“The border is the safest limit that we had in the history of the United States,” said DHS Secretary Kristi Noem the Senate Homeland Committee on May 20.

President Donald Trump faces challenges because he tries to drive his political agenda in the Senate, where the Republicans have a close majority and the Senators of the GOP bring their support for border security with concerns about increasing public debt.

The house version of the financing invoice is expected to add an estimated 3.8 trillion dollar to public debt in the next 10 years.

Ron Johnson, R-Wisconsin, said during the committee's hearing that DHS could build more than 3,000 miles border fence with an estimated $ 14 million per mile.

The border between the USA and Mexico only 1,950 miles from California to Texas. About 700 miles of the border have already been fenced.

“I ask you and the department to sharpen your pencil on this wall request,” he said to Noem. “It's more than you need.”

Noem proposed the committee that the costs per mile were less, around $ 12 million per mile.

The chairman of the committee, Rand Paul, R-Kentucky, said, even if DHS in some parts wanted a further 1,000 miles-independently due to extremely robust and mountainous terrain, the agency would need $ 12 billion, not $ 45.6 billion.

“We are a factor of three or four here,” said Paul Noem and asked for more details. “We can't just throw $ 30 billion outside and say: 'Things cost a lot.'”

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In the first four months of the Trump administration, illegal border crossings fell and accelerates a decline that began in the last year of the Biden administration.

The US border Patrol reported over 8,400 migrant encounters on the southern border in April, almost 129,000 encounters in the same month ago.

Noem said the financing would also go to the technology at the border, where, as she said, every third surveillance cameras currently does not work and there are routes that are not patrolled.

“The truth is that there are parts of this border in which we still don't know what is happening there,” she said.

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