"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."
(Score: 3, Informative) by progo on Friday February 15 2019, @04:58AM (1 child)
No wonder the country is on edge. We've got 31 emergencies already before we add a new one this week.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_national_emergencies_in_the_United_States [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Saturday February 16 2019, @03:29AM
Shows we should have started numbering emergencies at zero. With number 32, our five-bit emergency counter overflows.