Lawmaker says doesn't think new stopgap spending bill in U.S. Senate has wall money

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic Senator Ben Cardin said he does not believe a three-week stopgap funding bill introduced in the Senate Thursday evening has money for a wall to be built along the U.S. border with Mexico.

Cardin said at a news conference the three-week continuing resolution would have money to fund homeland security as part of overall funding for the Department of Homeland Security, but he added, "I don't think there's money in it for a wall."

(Reporting by David Alexander)