House Republicans will tweak border bill and try again Friday

Published July 31, 2014 10:22pm ET



House lawmakers will huddle Thursday night and Friday to try to rework spending legislation that would provide President Obama with additional money to deal with a surge in unaccompanied minors on the border.

In a dramatic turn of events, House lawmakers were summoned from airports and cars headed out of town for a five-week recess, and told to turn around and come back after GOP leaders first abandoned the border bill, then decided to take another crack at it after the rank and file revolted.

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