While protecting Santa Ana refuge, spending bill funds 33 miles of border wall in RGV

While conflating the border with the military and declaring his displeasure for the $1.3 trillion Omnibus spending package, President Donald Trump signed the bill Friday to avoid a looming government shutdown.

“I will never sign another bill like this again,” Trump said after tweeting early on Friday that he was considering a veto. “Nobody read it. It’s only hours old.”

Two things he was happy about, though, were the $1.6 billion related to the border wall, as well as adding “large numbers of immigration judges.” The bill funds 100 new teams of judges, according to Rep. Henry Cuellar, D-Laredo.

Trump wants to stop “drugs from flowing over our borders by having a strong border system, including a wall,” he said. “We are in a position, militarily, which is very advantageous.”

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Votes by Democratic representatives are included in the article.