🚨 GOP Senators Clash With Stephen Miller Over Trump Border Wall Funding
Sen. Rand Paul‘s (R-KY) feuding with the Trump administration has sparked GOP divisions over $150 billion in border money earmarked in President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill.”
Paul, a fiscal hawk who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, threatened to slash that funding in half this week ahead of the release of legislative text, a move opposed by Senate leadership and the White House.
“I am supportive of border security, but I’m just not supportive of a blank check,” the Kentucky Republican told The Washington Times after exiting a Wednesday GOP conference meeting.
“Rand chairs the Homeland Security Committee in the Senate. He’s trying to use that position to eviscerate the border and deportation provisions of the BBB (that he said he’s voting against),” Miller tweeted Wednesday.
“It’s hard to imagine a greater betrayal of the Americans who elected President Trump.”
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) got into a loud back-and-forth with Miller amid high-stakes negotiations over the fate of the taxation-and-spending package in the upper chamber.
“Stephen didn’t realize that we didn’t have the detailed breakdown in cost, so he explained why the wall was going to be more expensive. Simple misunderstanding, quickly resolved,” Johnson told The Post.
House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) told reporters Tuesday that the legislation would reduce federal spending by more than $1.6 trillion in total — and are counting on added revenue from Trump’s global tariffs to prevent trillions of dollars more being added to the national debt.
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) has still projected the bill will add around $3 trillion to the deficit over the next 10 years in its current form.
