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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   
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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• Re:So, what are the financial implications? Re:So, what are the financial implications? (Score: 1) by khallow on Friday February 15 2019, @01:58PM (2 children)

  by khallow (3766) on Friday February 15 2019, @01:58PM (#801528) Journal

  Ok, once more such abuses become standardized. It's like a leaking dike where more and more loopholes and bad precedence gets created. Eventually, it'll be enough for some future president to invent their own budget from scratch, though the wheels will probably come off before that.

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• Re:So, what are the financial implications? Re:So, what are the financial implications? (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:49PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Friday February 15 2019, @03:49PM (#801581)

  Well I'm in favor of ending all these national emergencies and revising the rules surrounding them, but pretending like this one is exceptional is not going to help there.

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  • Re:So, what are the financial implications? (Score: 1) by khallow on Saturday February 16 2019, @12:04AM

    by khallow (3766) on Saturday February 16 2019, @12:04AM (#801851) Journal

    but pretending like this one is exceptional is not going to help there.

    I have no trouble not doing that.

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