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Politicub's JournalTrump Plans to Declare National Emergency to Build Border Wall
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.
A speech of cookies and dog poop - you go, Van Jones!!
He’s calling out the speech as psychotic and rambling.
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