The United States President Donald Trump will on Monday unveil 2020 budget where he will ask the Congress for an extra $8.6 billion financial assistance for his proposed US-Mexico border wall in order to fight illegal immigration and human, drug trafficking, officials acknowledged to Trump’s 2020 budget.
According to reports, Trump’s fresh figure is six-time more than what the US Congress had allocated for the border wall project as well as 6 percent more than what Trump has corralled by invoking national emergency power.
In a joint statement on Sunday, US House of Representatives speaker Nancy Pelosi and US Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer said, “President Trump hurt millions of Americans and caused widespread chaos when he recklessly shut down the government to try to get his expensive and ineffective wall.”
It added, “Congress refused to fund his wall and he was forced to admit defeat and reopen the government. The same thing will repeat itself if he tries this again. We hope he learned his lesson.”
when asked about the new wall funding request by Trump and that if there would be any budget fight, Larry Kudlow, the White House economic adviser, said, “I suppose there will be … He’s going to stay with his wall and he’s going to stay with the border security theme. I think it’s essential.”
Speaking of 2020 budget, Kudlow told: “The president is proposing roughly a 5 percent across-the-board reduction in domestic spending accounts.”
