Trump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall
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Source: New York Times
WASHINGTON President Trump plans to declare a national emergency so he can bypass Congress and build his long-promised wall along the border even as he signs a spending bill that does not fund it.
The move would effectively end a two-month war of attrition between the president and Congress that closed much of the federal government for 35 days and left it facing a second shutdown as early as Friday, but it could instigate a new constitutional clash over who controls the federal purse.
President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action including a national emergency to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis, said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary.
Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/14/us/politics/trump-national-emergency-border.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur
Flints water supply is a crisis. Climate change is a crisis. The wall is craven vanity for Twitler.
underpants
(182,778 posts)RKP5637
(67,104 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)He won't allow himself to lose. He'll burn the whole house down before he allows that.
DemKittyNC
(743 posts)NOW can we declare 25th Amendment and...
...Oh right, he apparently cannot be touched. Long live the Russian Asset! (Sarcastically Screaming with all the power in my lungs!!!!)
earthside
(6,960 posts)Ruling by decree because he cannot get what he wants through the Constitutional process is tyranny.
Trump is not a conservative, he is not a Constitutionalist, and what is so disheartening is that the so-called 'conservative' Trumpians will shred the Constitution in order to support their 'Leader'.
Bad day for our constitutional republic.
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)Duplicate of https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142266381