Sen. Rand Paul expressed alarm Monday at his party’s plans to leverage a partisan budget bill to ensure long-term funding of immigration and border control.
Republican leadership is pitching its members this week on a plan to fund Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as well as the Border Patrol, for the next three years through the budget reconciliation process.
“That wouldn’t be that ‘narrow,’” Paul (R-Ky.) told Bloomberg Government as he left the Capitol on Monday. “We usually do spending one year at a time, nothing else is getting three years. That sounds like it would be expensive.”
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