House passes border spending package in win for Pelosi

The House voted 230-195 — almost entirely along party lines — to approve the $4.5 billion package for the border, where an influx of Central American migrants has strained government agencies and led to conditions for detained children that both parties have called horrific.

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“This situation is child abuse. It is an atrocity that violates every value we have,” Pelosi said on the House floor before the bill’s passage. “Today our legislation is a vote against the cruel attitude toward children of this administration.”…

All but four Democrats backed the legislation, in a show of unity within the caucus that came after an all-out whip operation by Pelosi and her deputies. The lone dissenters: liberal freshman Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.) and Ayanna Pressley (D-Mass.).

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