President Donald Trump is “willing to be patient” about getting the funding for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., said Friday.
Ryan and other Republican leaders met with Trump earlier this week. The speaker suggested to the Washington Examiner that Trump and GOP leaders are in agreement that their priority should be to pass as many spending bills as they can before the end of the fiscal year.
“As far as wall funding is concerned… It’s not a question of if, it’s a question of when and the president is willing to be patient so we can get that done because it is really important,” he said.
Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., who chairs the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that oversees funding for Homeland Security, supports a plan in the House to increase funding for the wall to $5 billion, and thinks that the Senate can introduce a funding proposal of its own. However, not all GOP leaders agree with the plan.
“Whether we have sufficient votes here to get that done remains to be seen,” said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas.
He added that the GOP is unaware of how much Congress will ultimately decide on for the wall, but said that they and Ryan both want to avoid causing Democrats to put a halt on spending by opposing legislation, which could lead to the government running out of funding.
“In the past, Democrats have used that as a reason to scuttle the whole spending [process],” Cornyn said. “We are basically trying to defer that fight until those other things are taking care of.”
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