The Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee says that the administration's request for $3.8 billion in funds to deal with the border crisis is "too much" and needs to be trimmed. Politico: House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers (R-Ky.) told reporters that his panel is scouring through the numbers in Obama’s $3.7 billion supplemental ask, but indicated that the funding level will have to be cut to get House approval. "It’s too much money,” Rogers said of Obama’s request, which he sent to Congress earlier this week. “We don’t need it. Secondly, a lot of what he’s requesting is being considered in the regular bill process.” Much of the funding depends on whether Congress decides to alter a 2008 anti-trafficking law that effectively makes it more difficult to deport children who come here illegally from countries that do not border the United States — a measure at the heart...(Read Full Post)