“It also would also provide 18,000 more Border Patrol agents, and scores of radar and camera towers on the US border with Mexico”
It will NEVER happen.
Yes. This is not an appropriations bill. It DOES NOT PROVIDE one, single additional Border Patrol agent. Nor does it provide scores of radar and camera towers. This kind of non-appropriations bill is saying, in effect, “Gee, wouldn’t it be nice if we had 18,000 more BP agents and some radar and camera towers? If, sometime down the road Congress decides to do that, it’s fine with us.”