It’ll go one of two ways obviously. 1. He announces the national emergency and that the funding already exists and that the wall is going forward. Government reopening depends on court challenges. 2. He will set up the evidence to support doing #1.
Either way I don’t see the Dims approving of any wall funding. So the above is the only option.
-SB
>> 2. He will set up the evidence to support doing #1.
That’s my instinct. It seems a bit too early in the negotiations to overturn them. The moment he announces he’s building the wall, there’s no reason to continue the stoppage and he looks like he got nothing out of negotiating. Whether he builds the wall or not, that means he lost the deal and he has to come out with SOMETHING from negotiating. He’s made a brilliant shutdown with minimal pain to everyone but bureaucrat Dems, and they’re be reinbursed for their vacation, if not for the interest charges on their charge account bills.
He’s winning big right now by being steel-straight backed to fulfill his campaign promise. But all the chatter is from the other side. So maybe this is his opportunity to let the whole nation know HIS side of the issue. When the Dems rebut, they won’t be saying anything new and a lot of people will just turn it off. Been there, done that.
Alternatively, maybe this is another opportunity to twing the media and make them give him a national forum to discuss something completely different. He’s done it at least twice before. The Fed and stockmarket is one possibility. RBG another. And don’t forget China trade, which was almost done a short time ago.