By AFPMore by this AuthorWASHINGTONUS President Donald Trump will seek $8.6 billion in fresh funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border in the 2020 budget request, likely triggering another fight with Congress, White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said Sunday. Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer decried the move, warning Trump that another legislative defeat would await him. RENEWED FIGHTKudlow, interviewed on Fox News Sunday, conceded that the new request would likely mean a renewed fight in Congress over wall funding. But he said Trump "is going to stay with his wall. That would be on top of the $6.7 billion in wall funding that Trump has ordered redirected from other government programs under a national emergency he declared last month.

Source: Daily Nation March 11, 2019 05:26 UTC