Trump administration lays groundwork to declare national emergency to build wall
Source: The Washington Post
By Erica Werner and Josh Dawsey January 10 at 5:14 PM
The White House has begun laying the groundwork for a declaration of national emergency to build President Trump’s border wall, including searching for unused money in the Army Corps of Engineers budget, two people with knowledge of the preparations said Thursday.
Trump has urged the Army Corps to determine how fast contracts could be signed and whether construction could begin within 45 days, according to one of these people, an official familiar with the deliberations who spoke on condition of anonymity to describe them.
The administration is specifically eyeing a disaster spending bill passed by Congress last year that includes $13.9 billion in funding that has been allocated but not actually spent for a variety of projects, according to the second person, a congressional aide who also requested anonymity.
The preparations are taking place with talks at an impasse over Trump’s demands for $5.7 billion to build more than 200 miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Democrats are staunchly opposed, leading to a partial government shutdown that reaches the 21-day mark on Friday, making it tied for the longest government shutdown in U.S. history.
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If he does it, he's definitely playing with fire! 
Get 'em Nancy!
And in a way it's funny to watch, considering he thinks of himself as 'the great negotiator'. But he's nutty as squirrel 
shit, and likely to do anything. So I propose we simply ....
LOCK HIM UP !!
LOCK HIM UP !!
LOCK HIM UP !!
