“Think ‘Donald’ + ‘Monument,’” a spokesperson for Cawthorn told E&E News, which first reported on the legislation.
The land shrine to Trump’s harsh, nativist immigration policies would be dubbed the “Southern Border Wall National Monument.” The bill would designate the physical wall and nearby lands nearly 300,000 acres in California, Arizona, New Mexico and Texas as a monument and “protect [them] from alteration,” according to the legislation.
In a statement announcing the bill, Cawthorn praised Trump’s efforts to make a secure southern border a “tangible reality” and slammed US President Joe Biden for his early executive order halting wall construction.
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Outlook for This Week in the Nation’s Capital
Congress. The House and Senate are back in session this week. The House is set to consider the Paycheck Fairness Act this week (H.R. 7), which would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to promote equal pay for men and women performing the same job, and they will also consider the Senate’s amendment on the bill to extend the current moratorium on the Medicare sequester (H.R. 1868). Outside of the bills scheduled for floor action, Democrats will continue working on the FY22 appropriations process and President Joe Biden’s infrastructure package, which the House hopes to pass by July 4th.
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