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Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Trump not ‘thrilled’ with border deal but leaning toward it
Associated Press
WASHINGTON
—
Under mounting pres-
sure from his own party,
President Donald Trump
appeared to be grudgingly
leaning toward accepting
an agreement Tuesday that
would head off a threatened
second government shut-
down but provide just a frac-
tion of the money he’s been
demanding for his Mexican
border wall.
Trump said he would
need more time to study the
plan, but he also declared he
was not expecting another
shutdown this week-
we’re talking about
end when funding
here.”
for parts of the gov-
Accepting
the
ernment would run
deal, worked out by
out. He strongly sig-
congressional nego-
tiators from both
naled he planned to
parties, would be a
scrounge up addi-
tional dollars for the
Trump
disappointment for
wall by raiding other
a president who has
federal coffers to deliver on repeatedly insisted he needs
the signature promise of his $5.7 billion for a barrier
presidential campaign.
along the U.S.-Mexico bor-
“I can’t say I’m happy. der, saying the project is par-
I can’t say I’m thrilled,” amount for national security.
Trump said of the proposed Trump turned down a simi-
deal. “But the wall is getting lar deal in December, forc-
built, regardless. It doesn’t ing the 35-day partial shut-
matter because we’re doing down that left hundreds of
other things beyond what thousands of federal work-
ers without paychecks and
Republicans reeling. There
is little appetite in Washing-
ton for a repeat.
Lawmakers tentatively
agreed Monday night to
a deal that would provide
nearly $1.4 billion for bor-
der barriers and keep the
government funded for the
rest of the fiscal year, which
ends on Sept. 30.
The agreement would
allow 55 miles of new fenc-
ing — constructed using
existing designs such as
metal slats— but far less
than the 215 miles the White
House demanded in Decem-
ber. The fencing would be
built in Texas’ Rio Grande
Valley.
Full details were not
expected to be released
until Wednesday as law-
makers worked to translate
their verbal agreement into
legislation. But Republican
leaders urged Trump to sign
on.
“I hope he signs the
bill,” said Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell,
who joined other GOP lead-
ers in selling it as a neces-
sary compromise that rep-
resented a major concession
from Democrats.
Appropriations
Com-
mittee Chairman Richard
Shelby, R-Ala., expressed
optimism Trump would be
on board.
“We believe from our
dealings with them and the
latitude they’ve given us,
they will support it,” he said.
“We certainly hope so.”
Others were less upbeat.
Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas,
who traveled with the pres-
ident to a rally in Cornyn’s
home state Monday night,
said, “My impression flying
back with him from El Paso
last night is that he thinks
it’s pretty thin gruel.”
Senate
backs
major
public
lands bill
By MATTHEW DALY
Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The
Senate on Tuesday approved
a major public lands bill that
revives a popular conserva-
tion program, adds 1.3 mil-
lion acres of new wilderness,
expands several national
parks and creates five new
national monuments.
The measure, the largest
public lands bill considered
by Congress in a decade,
combines more than 100
separate bills that designate
more than 350 miles of river
as wild and scenic, add 2,600
miles of new federal trails
and create nearly 700,000
acres of new recreation and
conservation areas. The
bill also withdraws 370,000
acres in Montana and Wash-
ington state from mineral
development.
The Senate approved the
bill, 92-8, sending it to the
House.
Lawmakers from both
parties said the bill’s most
important provision was to
permanently
reauthorize
the federal Land and Water
Conservation Fund, which
supports conservation and
outdoor recreation projects
across the country. The pro-
gram expired last fall after
Congress could not agree on
language to extend it.
“The Land and Water
Conservation Fund has been
a pre-eminent program for
access to public lands” for
more than 50 years, said Sen.
Maria Cantwell, D-Wash.
The program has supported
more than 42,000 state and
local projects throughout
the U.S. since its creation in
1964.
The hodgepodge bill
offered
something
for
nearly everyone, with proj-
ects stretching across the
country.
Even so, the bill was
derailed last year after
Republican Sen. Mike Lee
objected, saying he wanted
to exempt his home state of
Utah from a law that allows
the president to designate
federal lands as a national
monument protected from
development.
Lee’s objection during
a heated Senate debate in
December forced lawmak-
ers to start over in the new
Congress, culminating in
Tuesday’s Senate vote.
Sen. Cory Gardner, a
Colorado Republican who
clashed with Lee on the Sen-
ate floor, said the vote caps
four years of work to reau-
thorize the Land and Water
Conservation Fund and pro-
tect public lands.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski,
R-Alaska, who chairs the
Senate Energy and Natural
Resources Committee, said
the bill enhances use of pub-
lic lands and water, while
promoting conservation and
sporting activities such as
hunting and fishing.
She and other senators
called the Land and Water
Conservation Fund one of
the most popular and effec-
tive programs Congress has
ever created. The program
uses federal royalties from
offshore oil and gas drilling
to fund conservation and
public recreation projects
around the country.
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