McConnell rejects Democrats’ demands to change $4.6B border bill

By ANDREW TAYLOR and ALAN FRAM
WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell demanded Thursday that House Democrats drop their insistence for changes in a $4.6 billion border aid package that the Senate passed with overwhelming bipartisan support and instead give final congressional approval to the legislation.
Democrats held out hope that the White House might accept some changes, but McConnell vowed the GOP-held Senate would kill any “partisan” House changes that the De