
Trump’s ‘National Emergency’ Would Please His Base But Put GOP Senators On The Spot
Huff PostWin McNamee via Getty Images WASHINGTON — Does President Donald Trump’s need to please his most vocal supporters with a border wall constitute a national emergency? “It won’t be without controversy,” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told Fox News this week, just days after meeting privately with Trump on the matter in the Oval Office. “If he goes that route we’ll just hash it out.” Trump has been threatening for months to declare a “national emergency” and divert money from other programs to build hundreds of miles of wall along the Mexican border if Congress does not appropriate $5.7 billion for the project. “I think it’s bad law and I think it’s bad strategy for the president.” Keeping The Public Scared Trump and his White House, of course, argue that the situation at the southern border is a national security crisis and clearly constitutes an “emergency” that a president has the power to act on unilaterally.
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