Leaders in the House and Senate want to approve spending at least $4 billion more to address the influx of migrants and their humanitarian needs at the U.S.-Mexico border before the July Fourth recess.
Bills in the two chambers differ, however, raising doubts about whether there will be a resolution on President Donald Trump’s desk this month.
The Senate plan is bipartisan, though some Democratic appropriators have expressed concern about it moving to the floor without changes.
“I’m reluctant to provide any funding to this administration, to promulgate this chaos,” Senate Minority Whip Richard J. Durbin said Wednesday. “I hope this bill will improve before it is brought to the floor for a vote."
House Democrats’ $4.5 billion emergency spending bill would, like the Senate’s, assist U.S. departments and agencies handling the surge of migrants arriving at the southern border. Both measures also call for more close regulation and supervision over how agencies handle migrants and unaccompanied children.