Trump: 'I'm not looking to' declare national emergency over border fight

[DonViejo]

Source: Politico



Over the weekend, White House aides and advisers said they were still unsure how the president planned to end the government shutdown.

By ANDREW RESTUCCIA 01/14/2019 10:10 AM EST Updated 01/14/2019 10:48 AM EST

President Donald Trump on Monday appeared to rule out — at least for now — declaring a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, setting aside one of the White House's leading options for ending the 24-day partial government shutdown.

"Now I have the absolute legal right to call it, but I'm not looking to do that,” Trump told reporters as he departed the White House.

Trump had previously indicated he was in no rush to declare a national emergency and go around Congress to secure funds for the border wall, which he has long promised. But over the weekend, White House aides and advisers said they were still unsure how he planned to end the government shutdown.

The president’s Monday comments are the latest indication that there is no end in sight to the shutdown, which is now the longest in U.S. history. Both sides have dug in, with Trump demanding more than $5 billion for the wall and Democrats insisting that a wall is expensive, unnecessary and “immoral." As of Monday morning, there were no signs of a pending compromise, even after many federal workers missed their first paycheck on Friday.

Read more: https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/14/trump-on-declaring-national-emergency-im-not-looking-to-do-that-1098886

[Squinch]

1. That means he will.

[Major Nikon]

2. Probably not

I suspect someone smarter than Trump told him if he tried a federal judge would issue a cease and desist injunction in short order.

[Va Lefty]

3. I think the NRA got to him

They are terrified about the precident it would set.

[ScratchCat]

4. I agree

When they said 'White House counsel is looking into..", it meant WH counsel already told him it wouldn't hold up due to Separation of Powers. Anytime someone's lawyers are "looking into...", it means they have no case.

[Aristus]

5. "Yeah, it's an emergency, but there's no real rush."

What a ridiculous use of words...

[elleng]

6. But We the People are, jerk,

as our friends/neighbors/co-residents who work for the Federal government are in dire straights due to your idiocy.

[apnu]

7. Wait a bit. He'll get triggered by something on Twitter and change his mind.

As he does with everything.

[truthisfreedom]

8. Fox and friends will say something

And his highness’s head will spin around like the girl in the Exorcist again.

[delisen]

9. Can Rupert Murdoch's citizenship be revoked? nt