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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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