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On the recordFebruary 14, 2018
In his Fiscal Year 2019 budget we just got the other day, it has an $18 billion request for building the border wall across the U.S.-Mexico border.
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Don Beyer
Democratic · Virginia

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Beyer discusses the budget request for the border wall.

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