• Trump’s border emergency: Do-nothing-Democrats criticize declaration, v

    From Felcher Adam Schiff@21:1/5 to All on Sun Feb 2 14:05:18 2020
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    President Trump on Friday declared a national emergency in a
    move designed to circumvent Congress and build additional
    barriers at the southern border, where he said the United States
    faces “an invasion of our country.”

    Trump is seeking to secure about $6.5 billion more in funding
    through executive action than Congress approved in a bill passed
    Thursday to avert another partial government shutdown. In a Rose
    Garden news conference, Trump did not mention of signing the
    bill, but his acting chief of staff told reporters he intends to
    do so.

    Many of Trump’s Republican allies have called a national
    emergency ill-advised, and Democrats immediately called the move unconstitutional and vowed to fight it legislatively or in
    court. Trump also faced criticism for seeking to divert money
    from military construction and drug interdiction programs to pay
    for the border barriers.

    The emergency declaration is expected to face an array of other
    legal challenges.

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-border-emergency- the-president-plans-a-10-am-announcement-in-the-rose- garden/2019/02/15/f0310e62-3110-11e9-86ab- 5d02109aeb01_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.1f6e5ac63941
     

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