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(The Daily Caller ) Senate Democrats have shown their willingness to shut down the government in lieu of spending nearly $6 billion on a border wall but compare that price tag to some of the other expenditures the government funds. House Republicans passed a stopgap funding bill on Thursday that included $5.7 billion to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. However Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer vowed to kill any funding measure appropriating for a walls construction. Schumer has referred to the wall as expensive and ineffective" but just how expensive is it relative to recent expenditures? The Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) was appropriated a $5.7 billion budget in 2018 down from the roughly $8 billion annual budget it has received since the mid-1990s. Inline with the agencys mission statement nearly 90 percent of the budget is used to provide grants safeguarding clear air land and water according to National Geographic.