WASHINGTON — A proposal to bar the Trump administration from building a border wall in Big Bend National Park died Wednesday in the U.S. House Appropriations Committee, after the GOP-controlled panel rejected the idea along party lines. The measure, proposed by Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo, would have prevented the Department of Homeland Security’s budget from […]
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Proposed ban on Big Bend border wall fails in U.S. House funding panel
Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar sought to bar the Trump administration from using federal funds to build border barriers in the national park, which is rarely traversed by migrants.