The Wall

Here come our great North American walll

On Wednesday, GOP border security hawks Jeff Sessions of Alabama and John Kyl of Arizona won approval for $1.8 billion to build 370 miles of triple-layer fencing along the border with Mexico. An additional 461 miles of vehicle barriers would also be built.

That vote came just three weeks after the Senate rejected a plan to add the funding to the Homeland Security spending bill, financed by cuts to other programs. This time, Sessions won a 94-3 vote after adding to next year's estimated $354 billion budget deficit to finance the fence. It's unclear whether the funding will survive House-Senate talks.

Sad. Sad. Sad.