Trump Administration Wants To Cut Surveillance Tech And Freeze Pay To Build The Border Wall
The Trump administration wants to cut funding for border surveillance technology and has rejected pay raises for Border Patrol officers in order to fund new construction of a border wall, according to two reports released Wednesday.
The Democratic staff of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which released the reports, said its findings were based on a document from the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) provided to them by a whistleblower in November. The document, according to Democrats on the committee, showed the administration's response to funding requests from the Department of Homeland Security for 2019 fiscal year.
DHS did not immediately return a request for comment on the reports.