Pelosi Faces Pressure to Approve Border Funding Bill, as Senate Rejects House Changes

Pelosi Faces Pressure to Approve Border Funding Bill, as Senate Rejects House Changes
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) answers questions during her weekly press conference at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on June 27, 2019. Win McNamee/Getty Images
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) is facing pressure to approve a $4.6 billion emergency border aid package after Congress reached a stalemate on the bill designed to address the humanitarian crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border.

On June 27, Pelosi called on the Trump administration and the Senate to meet with House Democrats to sort out their differences on the bill before the weeklong Independence Day recess in a letter circulated to Democrats.