Washington – President Donald Trump edged closer on Friday to defying the power of the U.S. Congress by declaring a national emergency in an attempt to obtain funding for a U.S.-Mexico border wall, a step that would likely draw a court challenge from Democrats.
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Trump said at a White House event that he might declare such an emergency because it did not appear that Democrats in Congress were moving toward a deal that would provide the money he wants to help fund the wall, which Democrats broadly oppose.
“We’re not getting anywhere with them,” Trump said during an event at the White House, citing what he called “tremendous obstruction by Democrats,” who call their differences with the president a basic disagreement over immigration policy.
“I think there’s a good chance that we’ll have to do that,” Trump added, referring to the possibility of an emergency.
Under the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds the national purse strings and approves major expenditures of taxpayer funds.
Trump has discussed possibly declaring an emergency and redirecting funds already allocated by Congress for other purposes, possibly at the Defense Department, to his wall.
His latest comments came a day after Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic speaker of the House of Representatives, told reporters, “There’s not going to be any wall money” in legislation to fund border security for the rest of this year.
Pelosi said she was open to negotiating funding for more ports of entry or additional border security technology. She added that the 17 House and Senate negotiators working on legislation to fund homeland security for the year should decide components of border security.
Democratic negotiators unveiled a detailed opening position containing no money for additional physical barriers on the border to control the flow of undocumented immigrants and illegal drugs. Previously they had supported $1.3 billion for new fencing and improvements to existing barriers.
Congress launched a super committee on border security this week, the latest stage of a long debate over one of Trump’s biggest 2016 campaign promises, a concrete border wall he once said Mexico would pay for. The super committee has a Feb. 15 deadline to craft a deal on border security satisfactory to both political parties and to Trump, who agreed last week to end a historic 35-day partial government shutdown and allow Congress to try again to find a way forward.
Negotiations within the super committee began on Monday. Lawmakers have adjourned for the weekend.
(Gateway Pundit) – Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) sent a letter Wednesday to Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats urging that he, CIA Director Gina Haspel and FBI Director Christopher Wray “stage an intervention” with President Donald Trump following Trump’s suggesting earlier in the day that his intel advisers “go back to school”.
Two years ago, Schumer warned then President-Elect Trump against standing up to the intel community, saying, “Let me tell you: You take on the intelligence community — they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you.”
Good Idea. Please do it. Ignore Congress and give the POTUS all the Power he needs. The Republicans did not win any elections in 38 years. (Popular vote) Bush lost by 1.4 M votes and trump lost by 3 million.The midterms went Dem by 7 Million. The odds are that the next and many future Presidents will be a Democrat until the republican Party wakes up about Immigration etc. Mexicans, Asians etc will be the majority in a few years. It will be good for the Yiden (more programs) but it wont be good at all for Israel. Imagine a POTUS like Rev Sharpton or AOC. Lets wait and see if the Rep. Senators will allow it or its just plain talk like always.
He should. Pelosi is a total jerk. Trump did everything possible and Pelosi is being a jerk. Trump should declare emergency.
See ya in court.
What’s the emergency? Hasn’t Trump said that illegal crossings are way down since he took office? If a wall takes months or years to complete even without court challenges, how does it remedy the emergency situation?
Do it.Build a wall in your bedroom so Melania would not attack you at night. Keep our country (President) safe