Congressional negotiators scheduled the first public round of negotiations on the border wall for Wednesday.
House Appropriations Committee Chairwoman Nita Lowey announced the move in a statement Monday, moving quickly to follow up on the agreement last week that ended the monthlong government shutdown.
Known officially as a “conference committee,” the meeting will feature negotiators from the House and Senate, tasked with working on a new appropriations bill for the Homeland Security Department for 2019.
That bill, and a disagreement over border wall money, caused the shutdown....