Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX) introduced an amendment that would strip the nearly $5.7 billion in earmarks from the House Democrats’ surface transportation bill and use the money to establish a fund in the Treasury dedicated to constructing a border wall.
Roy's amendment is seen as symbolic, and unlikely to pass, since Democrats control the US House of Representatives, with 220 Democrats, 211 Republicans, and 4 vacancies.
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