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WASHINGTON—(ENEWSPF)–July 28, 2017. The House of Representatives yesterday approved the Trump administration’s $1.6 billion budget request to expand the U.S.-Mexico border wall, ignoring threats to protected wildlife refuges and border communities.
Republicans bundled the funding with defense and veterans spending bills in a bid to ensure passage. Work could begin later this year to build 32 miles of new border wall in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas and replace an existing border wall in…
