New billions required by Donald Trump for his upsetting wall

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United President Donald Trump obsession with the wall will now seek $8.6 billion in fresh funding for a wall on the US Mexico border in the 2022 budget request like triggering another fight with Congress, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday.

The request, which is to be formally unveiled Monday, would far exceed the $5.7 billion Trump demanded last year, which led to an impasse that resulted in a 35-day partial shutdown of the US government, the longest ever.

Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer decried the move, warning Trump that another legislative defeat would await him.

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The president’s request for wall funding will come in the form of USD 5 billion from the Department of Homeland Security and another USD 3.6 billion from the Pentagon.

That will be on top of the USD 6.7 billion in wall funding that Trump has ordered redirected from other government programs under a national emergency he declared last month.

He declared the emergency after the Congress approved only USD 1.375 billion for construction of 55 miles (90 kilometers) of barriers along the border in Texas. Also there is confusion as to what the wall exactly is.

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