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Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order, has identified $7 billion for wall
By Priscilla Alvarez and Tammy Kupperman, CNN
https://www-m.cnn.com/2019/01/24/politics/trump-border-wall-emergency-draft/index.html?r=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F
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Washington (CNN) The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN.
Trump has not ruled out using his authority to declare a national emergency and direct the Defense Department to construct a border wall as Congress and the White House fight over a deal to end the government shutdown. But while Trump's advisers remain divided on the issue, the White House has been moving forward with alternative plans that would bypass Congress.
"The massive amount of aliens who unlawfully enter the United States each day is a direct threat to the safety and security of our nation and constitutes a national emergency," a draft of a presidential proclamation reads.
"Now, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C 1601, et seq.), hereby declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States," the draft adds.
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Squinch
(50,957 posts)AlexSFCA
(6,139 posts)John Fante
(3,479 posts)"National emergency" implies that there's an imminent threat on the national security of the United States. Constructing a wall that could take a decade to build is a laughable way to address that. It's obvious BS.
By the time it does get to the SCOTUS, Gump will likely be gone.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)Squinch
(50,957 posts)to reopen because then his base won't be mean to him. If we stop him from declaring, he doesn't reopen the government and the situation just drags on like it is now and the only remaining solution is to get a veto-proof majority, which needs 67 Senators.
MaryMagdaline
(6,855 posts)Crutchez_CuiBono
(7,725 posts)C_U_L8R
(45,004 posts)And congress holds the purse strings. That bulltrump wont fly.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)bdamomma
(63,893 posts)with Russian money in their super/stupid pacs.
blogslut
(38,004 posts)I triple-dog dare you.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,364 posts)The Truth Is Here
(354 posts)Only a fucking vain baldy moron wants something that is not necessary but using that as a stalling tactic in regards to his indictment, his impeachment and eventual removal of his pathetic ass as well as Pence's pathetic ass.
procon
(15,805 posts)He'd get massive airtime coverage and he will dominate the news coverage for days. His already bloated ego will be so swollen he'll be intolerable to bear.
He's laying the groundwork for repeat performances in the future to weaken the coequal branches of our government while broadening the unwritten powers of the fantasy player that was spawned by GWB, The Unitary Executive, the American version of a king.
Blue Owl
(50,448 posts)bdamomma
(63,893 posts)Stephen Miller, Goebbels.
Gothmog
(145,374 posts)If trump tries this stunt, then the next POTUS who will be a democrat can use this on issues like climate change, gerrymandering, voting rights and gun rights
Luciferous
(6,084 posts)Gothmog
(145,374 posts)David__77
(23,423 posts)What I wonder is: what will Democrats in congress do in response? Certainly, no budget can be passed without Democratic agreement, regardless of an order by Trump.
FrankBooth
(1,604 posts)On the next day Mueller drops indictments. Playing the news cycle is the only thing this tool does.
WeekiWater
(3,259 posts)I know its how he negotiates. Hold steady Dems.