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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLet me get this straight, theres an national emergency and not an national emergency.
Trump will "probably" declare national emergency absent a deal in Congress
By Kathryn Watson
Updated on: January 10, 2019 / 10:25 AM / CBS News
President Trump indicated Thursday he will likely declare a national emergency if Congress doesn't reach an agreement to fund his border wall a move that is sure to set off challenges in the courts if he goes ahead with it. The president make the remarks to reporters on the White House South Lawn ahead of his departure to Texas to survey the southern border.
"If this doesn't work out, I probably will do it, I would almost say definitely," Mr. Trump told reporters, adding later, "If we don't make a deal, I would say 100 percent but I don't want to say 100 percent."
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/trump-border-visit-president-leaves-for-mcallen-texas-as-he-demands-wall-today-live-updates/
* damn looney
underpants
(182,901 posts)What the hell is that?
"There is GREAT unity with the Republicans in the House and Senate, despite the Fake News Media working in overdrive to make the story look otherwise," Mr. Trump wrote. "The Opposition Party & the Dems know we must have Strong Border Security, but don't want to give "Trump" another one of many wins!"
unblock
(52,331 posts)they have zero respect for principles of governance, democracy, norms or traditions, or even laws and the constitution per se.
it's all about what they can do, what they can get away with, and what gets them the result they want.
donnie doesn't care that there's no emergency. if "declaring an emergency" is the button he has to push to get the wall he wants, then that's what he'll do.
mcturtle didn't care that the senate had never refused to even consider a supreme court nomination from a sitting president with a year left in his term. he was able to get away with it and it got him the result he wanted so that's what he did.
all modern republicans aren't bothered in the least by constantly lying and hypocrisy and distracting and name-calling and dividing the country and so on because it works for them.