BREAKING: Trump to Declare National Emergency at 10am from Rose Garden !
Feb 15, 2019 08:46:51 #
Trump’s border emergency: The president plans a 10 a.m. announcement in the Rose Garden
By John Wagner ,
Josh Dawsey and
Damian Paletta
February 15 at 8:31 AM
President Trump is set to hold an event at 10 a.m. in the Rose Garden at White House, where he is expected to sign spending legislation to avert a government shutdown while at the same declare a national emergency with the aim of securing about $6.5 billion more to build his long-promised border wall without congressional approval.
Many of Trump’s Republican allies have called the move ill-advised, and Democrats are promising immediate action aimed at blocking it. The declaration is expected to face an array of legal challenges, possibly including from congressional Democrats.
Friday’s planned announcement follows passage of a 1,169-page spending bill that provides $1.375 billion for 55 miles of new fences along the border in Texas, far short of the $5.7 billion Trump had sought for 234 miles of steel walls.
8:15 a.m.: GOP seizes on O’Rourke’s comments about tearing down existing barriers
As Trump planned to speak about his plans for the border, Republicans were highlighting comments by former congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) that he would tear down existing barriers.
With President Trump prepared to sign a national emergency to fund the wall, here are some of the challenges that could crop up to block his declaration. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
O’Rourke, who is considering a 2020 p**********l bid, said on MSNBC on Thursday that existing walls and fences “have not in any demonstrable way made us safer.”
Besides being costly, O’Rourke said, existing barriers have “pushed migrants and asylum seekers and refugees to the most inhospitable, the most hostile stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, ensuring their suffering and death.”
Several Republican lawmakers went on Twitter in response, including Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
“Give Beto O’Rourke points for honesty: he admits that he wants to tear down existing border walls & have totally open borders,” Cotton wrote. “At least he’ll say what most Democrat politicians believe.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) also weighed in.
How Trump keeps losing money for his wall
Each time President Trump turned down money for his wall, he ended up with less money than he started with. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
“Correct me if I am wrong, but did Beto say he would tear down existing border fencing and walls?” Cornyn tweeted. “So he wants to make i*****l i*********n, human trafficking, and drug smuggling easier?”
7:30 a.m.: Senior official says Trump moving forward, prepared to veto legislative effort to block emergency declaration
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on a call Friday morning with Trump supporters and surrogates that it will “shock” people how quickly the administration is moving toward contracting and construction of the wall, according to a participant on the call.
Vought also said that Trump would “absolutely veto” any legislative effort to block his declaration of a national emergency, according to the participant.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that he plans to introduce a resolution of disapproval that would overturn the declaration, calling it a “a gross abuse of power that cannot be tolerated.”
Under the National Emergencies Act, House passage of a disapproval resolution would trigger automatic consideration by the Senate, where a simple majority v**e would be required to agree to it.
Given opposition from some Republicans, that raises the prospect that a disapproval resolution would pass the narrowly divided Senate in an embarrassing rebuke to Trump.
That would force him to veto the bill if he wants to move forward.
7 a.m.: Trump seeking a total of roughly $8 billion for wall and barriers
The White House has identified roughly $8 billion that it believes can be used toward building walls and other barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In addition to $1.375 billion included in the bill passed by Congress, Trump plans to draw money from a mixture of drug forfeiture funds, military projects and other accounts, according to a government officials briefed on the strategy, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a plan that has not been announced publicly.
Trump is eyeing about $600 million from a Treasury Department drug forfeiture fund and $2.5 billion from a Department of Defense drug interdiction program, according to the officials.
In addition, the president wants to use $3.6 billion in military construction funds to help build his border wall. The latter step would require declaring a national emergency.
6:45 a.m.: National emergency expected to draw a multitude of lawsuits
If President Trump declares a national emergency to construct a wall on the southern border, only one thing is certain: There will be lawsuits. Lots of them. From California to Congress, the litigants will multiply.
They will file suit in numerous jurisdictions — certainly within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on the West Coast, in U.S. District Court in Washington and maybe even in New York. That’s been the pattern in the hundreds of lawsuits, many of them successful, brought against the Trump administration, the idea being that some judge somewhere will block the wall.
Read more here from The Post’s Fred Barbash, Ellen Nakashima and Josh Dawsey.
6:30 a.m.: Trump came close to allowing another shutdown
After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday.
Headed for another defeat on his signature promise to make Mexico pay for a southern border wall, the president was frustrated after a briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and others on details of the final deal to avoid a shutdown, according to officials involved in the discussions. Trump threatened not to sign the legislation, the officials said, putting the government on the brink of another damaging shutdown.
Video and Links here:
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
By John Wagner ,
Josh Dawsey and
Damian Paletta
February 15 at 8:31 AM
President Trump is set to hold an event at 10 a.m. in the Rose Garden at White House, where he is expected to sign spending legislation to avert a government shutdown while at the same declare a national emergency with the aim of securing about $6.5 billion more to build his long-promised border wall without congressional approval.
Many of Trump’s Republican allies have called the move ill-advised, and Democrats are promising immediate action aimed at blocking it. The declaration is expected to face an array of legal challenges, possibly including from congressional Democrats.
Friday’s planned announcement follows passage of a 1,169-page spending bill that provides $1.375 billion for 55 miles of new fences along the border in Texas, far short of the $5.7 billion Trump had sought for 234 miles of steel walls.
8:15 a.m.: GOP seizes on O’Rourke’s comments about tearing down existing barriers
As Trump planned to speak about his plans for the border, Republicans were highlighting comments by former congressman Beto O’Rourke (D-Tex.) that he would tear down existing barriers.
With President Trump prepared to sign a national emergency to fund the wall, here are some of the challenges that could crop up to block his declaration. (Video: Jenny Starrs/Photo: Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post)
O’Rourke, who is considering a 2020 p**********l bid, said on MSNBC on Thursday that existing walls and fences “have not in any demonstrable way made us safer.”
Besides being costly, O’Rourke said, existing barriers have “pushed migrants and asylum seekers and refugees to the most inhospitable, the most hostile stretches of the U.S.-Mexico border, ensuring their suffering and death.”
Several Republican lawmakers went on Twitter in response, including Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.).
“Give Beto O’Rourke points for honesty: he admits that he wants to tear down existing border walls & have totally open borders,” Cotton wrote. “At least he’ll say what most Democrat politicians believe.”
Sen. John Cornyn (R-Tex.) also weighed in.
How Trump keeps losing money for his wall
Each time President Trump turned down money for his wall, he ended up with less money than he started with. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
“Correct me if I am wrong, but did Beto say he would tear down existing border fencing and walls?” Cornyn tweeted. “So he wants to make i*****l i*********n, human trafficking, and drug smuggling easier?”
7:30 a.m.: Senior official says Trump moving forward, prepared to veto legislative effort to block emergency declaration
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on a call Friday morning with Trump supporters and surrogates that it will “shock” people how quickly the administration is moving toward contracting and construction of the wall, according to a participant on the call.
Vought also said that Trump would “absolutely veto” any legislative effort to block his declaration of a national emergency, according to the participant.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that he plans to introduce a resolution of disapproval that would overturn the declaration, calling it a “a gross abuse of power that cannot be tolerated.”
Under the National Emergencies Act, House passage of a disapproval resolution would trigger automatic consideration by the Senate, where a simple majority v**e would be required to agree to it.
Given opposition from some Republicans, that raises the prospect that a disapproval resolution would pass the narrowly divided Senate in an embarrassing rebuke to Trump.
That would force him to veto the bill if he wants to move forward.
7 a.m.: Trump seeking a total of roughly $8 billion for wall and barriers
The White House has identified roughly $8 billion that it believes can be used toward building walls and other barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In addition to $1.375 billion included in the bill passed by Congress, Trump plans to draw money from a mixture of drug forfeiture funds, military projects and other accounts, according to a government officials briefed on the strategy, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a plan that has not been announced publicly.
Trump is eyeing about $600 million from a Treasury Department drug forfeiture fund and $2.5 billion from a Department of Defense drug interdiction program, according to the officials.
In addition, the president wants to use $3.6 billion in military construction funds to help build his border wall. The latter step would require declaring a national emergency.
6:45 a.m.: National emergency expected to draw a multitude of lawsuits
If President Trump declares a national emergency to construct a wall on the southern border, only one thing is certain: There will be lawsuits. Lots of them. From California to Congress, the litigants will multiply.
They will file suit in numerous jurisdictions — certainly within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on the West Coast, in U.S. District Court in Washington and maybe even in New York. That’s been the pattern in the hundreds of lawsuits, many of them successful, brought against the Trump administration, the idea being that some judge somewhere will block the wall.
Read more here from The Post’s Fred Barbash, Ellen Nakashima and Josh Dawsey.
6:30 a.m.: Trump came close to allowing another shutdown
After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday.
Headed for another defeat on his signature promise to make Mexico pay for a southern border wall, the president was frustrated after a briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and others on details of the final deal to avoid a shutdown, according to officials involved in the discussions. Trump threatened not to sign the legislation, the officials said, putting the government on the brink of another damaging shutdown.
Video and Links here:
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
Feb 15, 2019 08:53:04 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
Sicilianthing wrote:
Trump’s border emergency: The president plans a 10... (show quote)
Is this the SHTF day.
Feb 15, 2019 09:00:25 #
Bad Bob wrote:
Is this the SHTF day.
>>>
No Bob but it sets the stage for many other chaotic things to affect the nation.
Feb 15, 2019 09:06:32 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
Trump’s border emergency: The president plans a 10... (show quote)
Confused....
Is it enough?
Feb 15, 2019 09:08:10 #
Canuckus Deploracus wrote:
Confused....
Is it enough?
Is it enough?
>>>
Idk, we have to see what he says and what actions they really take.
I no longer believe any of their CRAP until I see it actually done.
The next phase is Mass roundups and Deportations of all 22milllion Scumbags.
Feb 15, 2019 09:18:41 #
Bad Bob wrote:
Is this the SHTF day.
Just more h**e America day from the left and some gutless Republicans.
Feb 15, 2019 09:20:12 #
Bad Bob
Loc: Virginia
Sicilianthing wrote:
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Idk, we have to see what he says and what actions they really take.
I no longer believe any of their CRAP until I see it actually done.
The next phase is Mass roundups and Deportations of all 22milllion Scumbags.
Idk, we have to see what he says and what actions they really take.
I no longer believe any of their CRAP until I see it actually done.
The next phase is Mass roundups and Deportations of all 22milllion Scumbags.
Ya got a date on that?? What happened to your 2-15 thing?
Feb 15, 2019 09:23:49 #
Bad Bob wrote:
Ya got a date on that?? What happened to your 2-15 thing?
>>>
You have a bad memory Bob
Today was to see if Trump waffles
April Fools is where the Base begins to call BullCrap on Trump’s drain the swamp and no Arrests of the Criminals.
Then we move forward fast with Plans B, C and D
You should be praying that Trumps work in today’s Emergency act happens so that we dont spiral further into all out divisions for War between left and right.
3 Things Democrats and Stupid Low Information V**ers, I******s, Muslim scumbags need to Give up going forward:
https://americanthinker.us17.list-manage.com/track/click?u=64b02e9269ba4913b764daf76&id=a9163df97b&e=563301fc83
Feb 15, 2019 09:27:55 #
jimpack123
Loc: wisconsin
Sicilianthing wrote:
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No Bob but it sets the stage for many other chaotic things to affect the nation.
No Bob but it sets the stage for many other chaotic things to affect the nation.
Tell me how can you declare a national emergency after signing the bill and then go on a weekend vacation. Even the Conservative WSJ says this a big mistake by Trump. will be overturn by the courts. You just can't declare it after signing the bill. Now if the Bill was not signed by declaring it unconstitutional. Then you might have a fighting chance. wait till all the land Owners get notices that Trump is gonna take there land do you think there are not gonna be lawsuits on that also. This will be the beginning of the End for Trump. He will lose the GOP held Senate with this
Feb 15, 2019 09:31:11 #
Feb 15, 2019 09:32:51 #
jimpack123 wrote:
Tell me how can you declare a national emergency a... (show quote)
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You’re wrong, Read the Constitution and learn the T***hs they didn’t teach you in school.
You’ve been lied to your entire life.
How’s that feel ?
Feb 15, 2019 09:33:23 #
Feb 15, 2019 09:52:18 #
jimpack123
Loc: wisconsin
Sicilianthing wrote:
>>>
You’re wrong, Read the Constitution and learn the T***hs they didn’t teach you in school.
You’ve been lied to your entire life.
How’s that feel ?
You’re wrong, Read the Constitution and learn the T***hs they didn’t teach you in school.
You’ve been lied to your entire life.
How’s that feel ?
We shall see my friend. You better hope that the emergency declaration fails or it could be used in the future to take away your guns. this is like opening pandora's box!
Feb 15, 2019 10:01:01 #
Sicilianthing wrote:
Trump’s border emergency: The president plans a 10... (show quote)
Liberal lawyers have been camping on the steps of the 9th Circus Court for days, awaiting this!
Feb 15, 2019 10:07:23 #
jimpack123
Loc: wisconsin
I hope so as this could be the beginning of the end for the good ole USA if Trump gets his way
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