DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—Senate Republicans blocked nearly 30 amendments from Democrats intended to derail the upper chamber’s budget blueprint to fund President Donald Trump’s border security agenda during an overnight session that concluded early Friday morning.
The Senate took the first step in unlocking more than $340 billion in spending to fund the president’s border security and deportation efforts, which will allow the administration’s illegal immigration crackdown to be executed at full force.
Though Senate Democrats attempted to put their Republican colleagues on the spot by holding votes on dozens of amendments intended to exact political pain, Democrats had little to say about the actual purpose of the budget resolution: funding the president’s border security agenda.
The Senate ultimately approved the border security-focused budget…
