Trump’s State Emergency Declaration Dissidents

After the white house stated that President Donald Trump is set to declare a state of emergency, there were mixed reactions over the same. While some people are in support of this rare move, others have come out to criticize it

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However, New York Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and three other newly elected progressive Democrats who’ve been bucking party leadership said they’d vote against the compromise.

They objected to giving more funding for the “abusive” agencies on the front line of immigration enforcement: Customs and Border Protection and Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Congressional Republicans have been pointing Trump to pots of federal money he could tap for a wall to steer him away from using a politically difficult emergency declaration to bypass Congress, a strategy sure to be challenged in court.

Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows of North Carolina said there would be no “political liability” from conservatives if he signs the measure and “also takes executive action.” “I don’t support [the agreement] and I don’t like it,” Meadows told Fox News’ ” he added.

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