U.S. House of Representatives and Senate negotiators have reached a deal on a $1...
WASHINGTON - U.S. House of Representatives and Senate negotiators have reached a deal on a $19.1 billion disaster aid bill that has President Donald Trump’s support, and which includes money for farmers, highways and hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico, lawmakers from both parties said on Thursday.
The agreement does not include emergency funds to address a migrant surge at the southern U.S. border that Trump had requested earlier this month, senators said. But it does include hundreds of millions of dollars to keep helping the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which was devastated by a hurricane in 2017. Trump had opposed more aid for the island.
A spokesman for House Appropriations Chair Nita Lowey, a Democrat, said she is pleased the bipartisan legislation “will meet urgent needs across the country.”
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