In a tweet Tuesday, Cruz said that the $14 billion U.S. prosecutors intend to seize from drug profits should fund the border wall’s construction. U.S. prosecutors are seeking $14 billion in drug profits & other assets from El Chapo which should go towards funding our wall to #SecureTheBorder. She has said, ‘No money for a wall.’ That’s not the case,” McCarthy said on CNBC Tuesday morning. Republicans and the White House were desperate to avoid another bruising shutdown. At the White House on Tuesday, spokesman Hogan Gidley was noncommittal: “We want to focus on what’s actually in the document.

Source: National Post February 13, 2019 13:52 UTC