Trump To Declare Emergency over Mexico-United States Wall

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US President Donald Trump is to invoke rare national emergency powers to secure funding for his planned border wall with Mexico, the White House said.

During his campaign, Donald Trump made building a Mexico–United States border wall his key promise. Since his inauguration which took place on 20th,

January 2017, Trump has been pushing forward to see that the barrier is put into place.

Despite many challenges and financial issues, it seems that he got a plan to actualizing the big project.

The U.S president is set to declare a national emergency to fund his planned Mexico-United States barrier, the White House Says.

Trump is to sign a border security bill to avoid a government shutdown – but also act to bypass Congress and use military funds for the wall, a statement said.

Congress must first pass the bill before it is signed by the president.

Building the wall was Trump’s key promise in his manifesto but lack of necessary funding made him delay in launching the project.

 

This what the statehouse said.

“The President is once again delivering on his promise to build the wall, protect the border, and secure our great country,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement on Thursday.

She also said that he would “take other executive action – including a national emergency – to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border”.

The compromise legislation includes $1.3bn (£1bn) in funding for border security, including physical barriers, but it does not allot money towards Mr. Trump’s wall.

When Mr. Trump warned that he might declare a national emergency over his wall earlier this year, some Republicans argued it would only set a dangerous precedent.

Speaking on the Senate floor on Thursday, however, party leader Mr. McConnell indicated his support for the move, saying the president was taking action with “whatever tools he can legally use to enhance his efforts to secure the border”.

Donald Trump is set to issue a national emergency declaration.
Donald Trump is set to issue a national emergency declaration

The Senate has passed the border security bill, which is now expected to go to the House of Representatives by Thursday

The republicans responded to the move by Trump to declare a state of emergency.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi has already suggested a legal challenge from Democrats should the president make an emergency declaration.

“We will review our options and prepare to respond to it,” she told reporters on Thursday.

“I know the Republicans have some unease about it, no matter what they say.

“If the president can declare an emergency on something that he has created as an ’emergency’, an illusion that he wants to convey, then think of what a president with different values can present to the American people.”

A month ago, following federal government shutdown crisis, a consensus had emerged that the easiest way out for the president was to back down from his demands for congressional border wall appropriations while declaring a “national emergency” to commandeer funds from other sources.

It took a while, but the path of least resistance was the one Donald Trump followed.

He detached himself from a mess of his own making while taking action that he can cite to supporters as evidence that he’s fulfilling his “build the wall” campaign promise.

Of course, the drawbacks to this course that were apparent in January are still there.

Republicans fear this will set a precedent for presidential power that Democrats can someday use to circumvent the will of Congress.

The emergency declaration is sure to get bogged down in court challenges, which means it may not have much tangible benefit anytime soon.

And, as much as the president may like to spin this as a victory by other means, he still backed down in the face of Democratic resistance in Congress.

The shutdown fight was always about more than just the wall – it was a battle over who would set the political agenda for the next two years of the Trump presidency.

And if this resolution is any indication, if the president wants to get his way he’s largely going to have to find ways around Congress, not through it.

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  A national emergency

A state of emergency is declared in times of crisis is being caused by migrants arriving on the US-Mexico border.

Experts say declaring a national emergency would give the president access to special powers that effectively allow him to bypass the usual political process.

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