Two senior Trump administration officials told Republican senators at a closed-door lunch meeting Tuesday that they’re running out of money to secure the borders and need Congress to immediately pass $175 billion to complete the U.S.-Mexico border wall and hire more law-enforcement agents.

Trump’s “border czar” Tom Homan and his White House budget director, Russell Vought, warned GOP lawmakers that they can’t wait another few months for Republicans to reach agreement on a complex tax package before getting more money to secure the northern and southern borders.

“The problem we have now, we’re running out of money,” Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) told reporters after the meeting with Homan and Vought.

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