White House officials are sounding the alarms that a House GOP plan to avert a government shutdown would be a boon for drug cartels.
More than 5,000 pounds of methamphetamine seized in San Diego County from truck that crossed the US border from Mexico.KEVIN MCCARTHY has been grappling with a divided GOP caucus as he tries to negotiate a way out of a government shutdown.“A vote against a standard short-term funding measure is a vote against paying over $1 billion in salary for Border Patrol and ICE agents working to track down lethal fentanyl and tame our open borders,” Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell warned Wednesday.
“I think it’d be very important to have a meeting with the president,” McCarthy told reporters Tuesday. “The president could keep government open by doing something on the border.”
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