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That's it! No wall for you!!
https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/05/politics/trump-contractors-border-wall-national-emergency/index.html?utm_term=link&utm_content=2019-02-05T19%3A03%3A15&utm_source=fbCNNp&utm_medium=social&fbclid=IwAR0hQTOG1GYb_D8gXpT2mw8J2aiKNRZl_qNZ6rPdGZF2JQeIfbU243YPPdc
Trump, Kushner met with contractors to discuss building border wall
By Kaitlan Collins, CNN
Updated 12:34 PM ET, Tue February 5, 2019
Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump and his son-in-law and senior adviser, Jared Kushner, met with contractors at the White House to discuss building the border wall late last week, two sources with knowledge of the meeting told CNN.
Despite CNN reporting that several senior Senate Republicans and members of GOP leadership have raised serious concerns about the possibility of Trump bypassing Congress and using an emergency declaration to build his wall, the President's meeting with contractors shows that he is seriously considering doing so.
The White House declined to comment on the meeting. White House counsel Pat Cipollone was also present.
Trump came close to declaring an emergency after competing proposals to end the government shutdown both failed in the Senate at the end of January. But aides convinced him that waiting three weeks while a special committee of senators and representatives attempted to hash out a deal was a better idea. Then, if those congressional negotiators couldn't come up with an agreement that funded the wall, he could declare a national emergency.
Trump has expressed doubt in recent days that the committee will find a solution he accepts.
"Listen closely to the State of the Union," he said Friday when asked if he was ready to announce a national emergency.
mahatmakanejeeves
(57,394 posts)Ill say this slowly for the Trump supporters: He. Does. Not. Have. The power. Of. The. Purse. That is on Congress. He cannot contract for his wall. Even if he had the money
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babylonsister
(171,056 posts)he's still a #moron.
Karadeniz
(22,506 posts)I thought I read in the butterfly article that trump was spending money that had been previously appropriated for 33miles of fence or whatever. Did I read wrong?