The Latest: House panel debuts bill to fund border wall

The $1.6 billion appropriations for a down payment on building a physical wall and other blockades matches Trump's request, but comes after the GOP-controlled Congress failed to deliver the money when passing an omnibus spending measure earlier this year. Democrats objected to the funding and the Trump administration and congressional Republicans took a pass on forcing the issue. The wall money is embedded in a $44 billion homeland security funding bill released Tuesday by the House Appropriations Committee.