Congress grants $380 million in border security funding to Middle Eastern countries

The $1.2 trillion spending bill recently passed to avert a shutdown includes money for border security in foreign countries, even as Congress remains deadlocked on the U.S. border.

Adam Shaw is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital, primarily covering immigration and border security.

It’s an inclusion that has been in a number of omnibus budgets in recent years and upset a number of Republicans, who see it as wasteful and coming at a time when some Democrats are wary of spending money on border walls and similar measures at the U.S. southern border.  He can be reached at adam.shaw2@fox.com or on Twitter.