Senate Dems introduce bill to prevent Trump from using disaster funds to build wall

[yortsed snacilbuper]

A group of Senate Democrats, including several 2020 contenders, have introduced legislation that would prevent President Trump from using disaster relief funds to finance a wall along the southern border.

The Protecting Disaster Relief Funds Act would block Trump from taking funds allocated to the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Housing and Urban Development or the Army Corps of Engineers for disaster relief and using that money to construct physical barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The senators backing the bill include several who have already entered the presidential race - Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), Kamala Harris (D-Calif.) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) - as well as Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), who is reportedly on the verge of making his announcement.

Harris said in a statement announcing the legislation that Trump "cannot go around Congress to fund his ridiculous vanity project."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/senate-dems-introduce-bill-to-prevent-trump-from-using-disaster-funds-to-build-wall/ar-BBTIsJ5?ocid=spartanntp

[procon]

1. unless the senate is onboard this is just another

feel good effort going nowhere.