Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney said Tuesday that President Trump would sign a spending bill that does not include funds to build a border wall.
“Yeah, because the bill, at least the offer that we received from the Democrats the last couple days included a good bit of money for border security,” Mulvaney told host Jake Tapper on CNN’s “The Lead.”
Mulvaney said the spending bill, which would fund the federal government through September and avoid a shutdown at the end of the week, includes money for border security. Those funds, however, are not specifically allocated for building a border wall.
He said the bill would allow Trump “to follow through on his promise to make that border more secure.”
Their agreement comes as the midnight Friday deadline approaches, and a possible government shutdown looms.
Mulvaney said the administration doesn’t plan “to back down” from its promise to build a border wall.
“We just thought that it would be a good first step to get these things that everybody agrees on and take that idea of a government shutdown off the table,” Mulvaney continued.
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Trump budget director: Trump OK with signing spending bill without border wall funding https://t.co/sjhpWuKOEs pic.twitter.com/TqBgJyz7sd
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