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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:50AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @04:50AM (#801408)

    This is supposedly a more expansive use of the national emergency than previous ones. No, I don't have a source for that.

  • (Score: 2) by mth on Friday February 15 2019, @10:56AM (1 child)

    by mth (2848) on Friday February 15 2019, @10:56AM (#801486) Homepage

    Most of the other things on the list, especially from the last 25 years, are neither national nor emergencies (not anymore anyway; they may have been urgent at the time). It seems to me that the main difference is that most things on the list weren't controversial, so politicians didn't care that the national emergency mechanism was abused to quickly react to international developments with asset freezes etc.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @12:38PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @12:38PM (#801500)

      I really like how Trump manages to bring all the corrupt crap that has been going on in the government to the public consciousness.