But Trump would be denied a more recent, far larger $25 billion request for multi-year funding for the wall project. The person said the plan addresses the president's top priorities, including a large funding increase for the military, border security measures and money to fight the opioid epidemic. Aging equipment, personnel shortages, training lapses, maintenance lapses — all of this has cost us," said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis. "With this week's critical funding bill we will begin to reverse that damage." Both parties touted $4.6 billion in total funding to fight the nation's opioid addiction epidemic, a $3 billion increase. And while Democrats yielded on $1.6 billion in wall funding, none of that money would go for the new prototypes that Trump recently visited in San Diego.

Source: ABC News March 21, 2018 04:21 UTC