Montana Lawmaker to Propose Giving $8 Million to Help Build Border Wall

A Mexican family stands next to the border wall between Mexico and the United States, in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico on May 23, 2017. Herica Martinez/AFP/Getty Images

A Montana lawmaker says that the state should help pay for the southern border wall.

Scott Sales, a state Senator and president of the Senate, said that he’s going to sponsor a bill to appropriate $8 million in state money to help build the wall.