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Trump will sign border security bill, declare national emergency, White House says

posted by martyb on Friday February 15 2019, @03:52AM   Printer-friendly
from the President's-precedents dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

"President Trump will sign the border security compromise package on Capitol Hill to avert another government shutdown and will take the extraordinary step of declaring a national emergency to obtain funding for the border wall, the White House announced Thursday."

https://foxnews.com/politics/mcconnell-says-trump-prepared-to-sign-border-security-bill-and-will-declare-national-emergency

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  • (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Friday February 15 2019, @04:45AM (1 child)

    by DeathMonkey (1380) on Friday February 15 2019, @04:45AM (#801405) Journal

    What would make you happy? no really, I'm interested. He's trying to fulfill his promise to build a wall and no, it doesn't look like the Mexicans will pay for it.

    So I count two promises in that sentence. How do we determine which are the real promises and which are the pretend promises?

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:39AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @08:39AM (#801459)

    Look, if you like your wall, you get to keep it.