President Donald Trump said Frday he is considering declaring a national emergency to help pay for his long-desired border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
The discussions have intensified as the president is now 14 days into a partial government shutdown, facing newly empowered House Democrats who are refusing to budge issue of wall funding. “We are not doing a wall,” House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Thursday, calling the proposed structure an “immorality.”
On Friday, the president said he had had a “productive” and “very, very good meeting” after talks with top Democrats and other congressional leaders at the White House in an effort to end the partial government shutdown now heading into the third week. Just minutes earlier, Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer told reporters outside the White House that Trump told lawmakers in their nearly hour and a half meeting that he is prepared to keep the government closed “for a very long period of time, months or even years.”
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi called the meeting “contentious.”
Wouldn’t declaring a “National State of Emergency” necessarily invoke FEMA and Marshal Law also?
A Democratic house of congress will slap down that stupidity in a minute.
Your left wing, Trump hating House can’t do so, Timmy Sue. It is a function of POTUS’s constitutionally mandated executive power.
Just DO IT
Hundreds of welfare sucking beaners streaming across the border into the U.S. every single day in areas where no barrier exists. Ya, I think that qualifies as a national emergency. Indeed, Trump should have done this months ago.
What a deterrent a Gatling gun would be.