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Politicub

(12,165 posts)
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:47 PM Feb 2019

Trump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall

This discussion thread was locked as off-topic by DonViejo (a host of the Latest Breaking News forum).

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



Flint’s water supply is a crisis. Climate change is a crisis. The wall is craven vanity for Twitler.
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Trump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall (Original Post) Politicub Feb 2019 OP
Just absurd underpants Feb 2019 #1
And tRump is a crisis too! n/t RKP5637 Feb 2019 #2
I've been saying he will do this for weeks Downtown Hound Feb 2019 #3
Wow, just insane! DemKittyNC Feb 2019 #4
Trump aspires to be a tyrant. earthside Feb 2019 #5
Locking... DonViejo Feb 2019 #6

underpants

(182,545 posts)
1. Just absurd
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:49 PM
Feb 2019

RKP5637

(67,078 posts)
2. And tRump is a crisis too! n/t
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:49 PM
Feb 2019

Downtown Hound

(12,618 posts)
3. I've been saying he will do this for weeks
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:50 PM
Feb 2019

He won't allow himself to lose. He'll burn the whole house down before he allows that.

DemKittyNC

(743 posts)
4. Wow, just insane!
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:58 PM
Feb 2019

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)
5. Trump aspires to be a tyrant.
Thu Feb 14, 2019, 04:59 PM
Feb 2019

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.
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