agree to first a safe country agreement, requiring them to claim asylum here, not in the u.s. i can t define what kind of concepts we are going to come up with. i can confirm that guatemala is going to be a country that is going to support the u.s. with regards of closing that loopho loophole. so again, that is guatemala. that is mexico. he takes me across. many have criticized president trump for emphasizing border security exclusively, saying we need to address the root causes. complicated, as we said. no one here that we spoke to said that spending more money here was going to be the answer because $956 million out almost $1 billion over six yea years. migration has gone up in each of those years. so sending more here?
and is on its way to the president. mike emanuel explains while the bill received a lot of votes, it doesn t have a lot of fans. the ayes are 68. the nays are 32, and the conference report is agreed to. the senate passed a bipartisan compromise of a five-year, $956 million farm bill which took three years of negotiation. it s expected to reduce the deficit by $23 billion in the next decade, including cutting $8 billion in food stamp funding by correcting a program misuse. we think we have tightened it up so it will not affect the payments to those who are truly eligible and those who need the help, and yet it will make sure the taxpayers are treated fairly as well. the chair of the senate agriculture committee says this deal ends indefensible spending after many years of trying. we have finally ended direct payment subsidies which are given to farmers even in good times. instead, we move to a responsible risk management