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The massive spending bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President Biden last month continues a years-long tradition of earmarking significant amounts of money for border security in a number of Middle Eastern countries – just as a fight over how best to secure the U.S. border is still ongoing.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-1-2-trillion-government-spending-bill-avert-government-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The $1.2 trillion package</a>, which includes funding for defense and homeland security among other agencies, includes an appropriation for $380 million that is to remain available until September 2025 to reimburse Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman for "enhanced border security." Of that, $150 million is specifically dedicated to Jordan.<a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240318/WDI39597.PDF" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">It’s an inclusion</a> that has been in a number of omnibus budgets in recent years and upset a number of Republicans, who see it as wasteful and coming at a time when some Democrats are wary of spending money on border walls and similar measures at the U.S. southern border. <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chinese-migrants-make-multi-country-trek-us-southern-border-i-just-want-make-money" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CHINESE MIGRANTS MAKE MULTI-COUNTRY TREK TO US SOUTHERN BORDER </a>"But you see them running this thing through by dark of night with billions in things that – they're doing border security in foreign countries, and they're impeding border security in our country," <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/top-republican-blasts-spending-bills-focus-foreign-borders-americas" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Steve Scalise,</a> R-La., said in 2022.The spending package won bipartisan votes in both houses of Congress to avert a government shutdown, but sparked significant conservative opposition. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion to vacate Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., as House speaker, accusing him of having "betrayed" the "confidence" of the House GOP Conference by ushering through the legislation.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-says-its-putting-us-first-face-mexicos-migrant-demands" target="_blank" rel="noopener">WHITE HOUSE SAYS IT'S PUTTING US FIRST IN FACE OF MEXICO'S MIGRANT DEMANDS </a>It comes not only during a historic migrant crisis at the southern border, with a record February for migrant encounters, but also as Congress is unable to agree on how to secure the border and limit the number of migrants coming to it.The Biden administration has called for the passage of a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/border-security" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan border funding bill</a> that was negotiated earlier this year and includes additional border funding, including staffing, technology, money for NGOs and communities receiving migrants, and a temporary mechanism to stop entries if migrant encounters breached 5,000 a day. Conservatives have said it would normalize already excessive levels of<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/fox-news-illegal-immigrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> illegal immigration.</a>The administration and Democrats have said they are dealing with a historic hemisphere-wide crisis, but the immigration system is broken and needs funding and reform.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-1-2t-spending-package-brief-partial-government-shutdown" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SENATE PASSES MAMMOTH $1.2T SPENDING PACKAGE AFTER BRIEF PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN</a>Republicans, however, have said the crisis has been caused by the reversal of successful Trump-era policies by the Biden administration, including border wall construction, the Remain-in-Mexico policy and broader interior enforcement.In the House, Republicans have passed their own border security and asylum bill, H.R. 2, which would provide additional funding, including for the restarting of border wall construction, as well as reforms to drastically limit entries into the interior of the United States.Fox News' Liz Elkind contributed to this report.

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content: The massive spending bill passed by Congress and signed into law by President
 Biden last month continues a years-long tradition of earmarking significant amounts
 of money for border security in a number of Middle Eastern countries – just as a
 fight over how best to secure the U.S. border is still ongoing.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/house-passes-1-2-trillion-government-spending-bill-avert-government-shutdown"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">The $1.2 trillion package</a>, which includes funding
 for defense and homeland security among other agencies, includes an appropriation
 for $380 million that is to remain available until September 2025 to reimburse Jordan,
 Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman for "enhanced border security." Of that, $150 million
 is specifically dedicated to Jordan.<a href="https://docs.house.gov/billsthisweek/20240318/WDI39597.PDF"
 target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">It’s an inclusion</a> that has been in a
 number of omnibus budgets in recent years and upset a number of Republicans, who
 see it as wasteful and coming at a time when some Democrats are wary of spending
 money on border walls and similar measures at the U.S. southern border. <a
 href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/chinese-migrants-make-multi-country-trek-us-southern-border-i-just-want-make-money"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">CHINESE MIGRANTS MAKE MULTI-COUNTRY TREK
 TO US SOUTHERN BORDER </a>"But you see them running this thing through
 by dark of night with billions in things that – they're doing border security in
 foreign countries, and they're impeding border security in our country," <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/top-republican-blasts-spending-bills-focus-foreign-borders-americas"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rep. Steve Scalise,</a> R-La., said in 2022.The
 spending package won bipartisan votes in both houses of Congress to avert a government
 shutdown, but sparked significant conservative opposition. Rep. Marjorie Taylor
 Greene, R-Ga., filed a motion to vacate Rep. Mike Johnson, R-La., as House speaker,
 accusing him of having "betrayed" the "confidence" of the House GOP Conference by
 ushering through the legislation.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-says-its-putting-us-first-face-mexicos-migrant-demands"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">WHITE HOUSE SAYS IT'S PUTTING US FIRST IN
 FACE OF MEXICO'S MIGRANT DEMANDS </a>It comes not only during a
 historic migrant crisis at the southern border, with a record February for migrant
 encounters, but also as Congress is unable to agree on how to secure the border
 and limit the number of migrants coming to it.The Biden administration has
 called for the passage of a <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration/border-security"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">bipartisan border funding bill</a> that was negotiated
 earlier this year and includes additional border funding, including staffing, technology,
 money for NGOs and communities receiving migrants, and a temporary mechanism to
 stop entries if migrant encounters breached 5,000 a day. Conservatives have said
 it would normalize already excessive levels of<a href="https://www.foxbusiness.com/category/fox-news-illegal-immigrants"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener"> illegal immigration.</a>The administration
 and Democrats have said they are dealing with a historic hemisphere-wide crisis,
 but the immigration system is broken and needs funding and reform.<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/senate-1-2t-spending-package-brief-partial-government-shutdown"
 target="_blank" rel="noopener">SENATE PASSES MAMMOTH $1.2T SPENDING PACKAGE
 AFTER BRIEF PARTIAL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN</a>Republicans, however,
 have said the crisis has been caused by the reversal of successful Trump-era policies
 by the Biden administration, including border wall construction, the Remain-in-Mexico
 policy and broader interior enforcement.In the House, Republicans have passed
 their own border security and asylum bill, H.R. 2, which would provide additional
 funding, including for the restarting of border wall construction, as well as reforms
 to drastically limit entries into the interior of the United States.Fox
 News' Liz Elkind contributed to this report. 
summary: The $1.2 trillion spending bill recently passed to avert a shutdown includes
 money for border security in foreign countries, even as Congress remains deadlocked
 on the U.S. border.
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