House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Getty Images/Alex Wong)

(CNSNews.com) - Republicans in the House of Representatives voted 109 to 87 not to approve an appropriations bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and eight other federal agencies that only provides $1.375 billion for “pedestrian fencing” along the U.S.-Mexico border in the Rio Grande Valley in Texas.

That is estimated to be enough to build 55 miles of fencing. (N.B. The New York Times reports that it "provides money for 55 miles of steel-post fencing' and the Washington Post that it "provides $1.375 billion for 55 miles of new fencing along the border in Texas.")

The full House vote count was 300 for the bill, 128 against, with 4 members not voting.

The bill passed in the Senate 83 to 16 with one member not voting. Eleven of the 16 senators voting against the deal were Republicans, including Sen. Mike Lee (Utah), Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas), Sen. Rand Paul (Kentucky), and Sen. Jim Inhofe (Oklahoma).

The bill specifically restricted the types of “fencing” along the border that can be built with the $1.375 billion.

Additionally, the bill named five areas along the Texas border where no fencing could be built (including a wildlife refuge and a butterfly center) and said that fencing could not be built in five Texas cities along the border until the Department of Homeland Security and elected officials in those cities “reach mutual agreement regarding the design and alignment of physical barriers within that city.”

The White House has indicated that President Trump will sign the bill and declare a national emergency to allow him to repurpose other federal moneys for use in building barriers at the border.

Here is the text of the section of the spending bill that provides $1.375 billion for border fencing and places restrictions on the design and location of that fencing: