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Hometown heavy weight will jump in the race. we ve got to give part of this amazing thing in texas over the last two years. the last two years good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where president trump is sending a clear message to his base. the fight for more border wall funding is far from over. the new battle lines between the president are being drawn over the president s budget request for the upcoming fiscal year. it s a white house priorities set to congress. remember $8.6 billion. that s the request for additional border wall funding, an eye-catching figure and a big reminder to trump voters that the president is keeping that wall front and center. joining me now, nbc white house correspondent, kristen welker and msnbc and gene sperling and ....
Specifically is asking for $8.6 billion in funding for his long-promised border wall. it s actually the first time the trump administration is asking for border wall funding for more than one source. he s asking for $5 billion from customs and border protection and another $3.6 billion from military construction funds over at the pentagon and asking for an additional $3.6 billion basically to reimburse money he s spending through his national emergency declaration. the president essentially trying to ask congress to approve money he went around them to spend. democrats are not happy about this. leadership in congress, house speaker nancy pelosi and minority leader chuck schumer put out a joint statement, they write, 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, which he promised would be paid for by mexico. congress refused to fund his ....
Organization is asking for border wall funding from more than one source. he s asking for $5 billion from customs and border protection, another $3.6 billion for military construction funds from the pentagon, and the president is also asking for an additional $8.4 billion to reimburse money he s spent on the issue of immigration. so even though president trump tried to get around congress to get money for his border wall, now he s requesting they approve funds he spent on that declaration. democrats are not embracing this budget. senate minority leader chuck schumer put out a statement alongside house speaker nancy pelosi. they write in part, quote, president trump hurt millions of americans and caused widespread chaos when he recklessly shut the government down to try to get his expensive and ineffective wall which he promised would be paid for by mexico. congress refused to fund his wall and he was forced to admit ....
To the issues here, coulter and trump are in a minor. they have not been able to persuade the mantle of the public to support billions of border wall funding. the president is going into a legal battle as he tries to reallocate money for construction of a wall. it s the example of a intramural fight between the countiers and trumps of the world. it just goes to show these commentators do get under the president s skin, even though he claims otherwise. i think hi tweets tell the real story. the president played up the conservative judges appointed to the bench. does it appear that the president, with his response to coulter over the wall, now talking about the judges, he s concerned about his base. he s trying to build up his own wall with the base. i think this is the this could be worse school of politics. ....
Government, and that has a lot of people concerned about spying and how committed are our european allies to putting troops on the ground in syria to prevent a resurgence of isis plus democratic congressman ben mcadams is here with a member of the blue dog coalition what does he think of his freshman colleagues like illham omar and alexandria ocasio-cortez making waves and also tom fitton reacts to the top republican on the judiciary committee releasing the full transcript of bruce ohr s closed door testimony on how the doj and fbi went about getting that controversial fisa warrant all those stories coming up on sunday morning futures. and we begin with president trump set to unveil his proposed budget for fiscal year 2020 tomorrow morning we re learning this morning that that budget will include a requested $8.6 billion in border wall funding. this as the senate prepares to vote this week on a resolution ....