The bill gives him 1.6 billion. He needs 25 billion. He will get the entire wall......He won’t get tangled up in court. We have to be realistic here. Of course the courts are going to intervene. They will do so by any means necessary, including citing "environmental" or "human rights" staw man.
raybbr is correct when he asserts that monies were not appropriated for this purpose. People who don't understand Federal Budget Law easily throw around the "just Do it" mantra, but these are ironclad and real restrictions.
What Trump is attempting here is to declare National Security (drugs, human trafficking, etc) on the one hand, and based on other stories he is going to attempt to land a left hook on Congress using the 1985 Gramm-Rudman law to sequester funds the Democrats and RINOs have already appropriated, AND he is going to declare a National Emergency to give it teeth.
President Sends Letter to House Designating Emergency Requirement of ALL Funding
We'll just have to see.
You might be a few steps behind. He has been saying Drugs are pouring across the borders in alarming numbers since he election. DOD spending on the wall language was slipped into the last $700 billion defense bill. He declared a drug crisis a national emergency in December. On Friday he sent Congress a letter taking about 145 billion (if memory serves) from the just passed omnibus and reallocated it to the national emergency. Now from his tweet it seems clear that he is using the military to help stop the national emergency . (He added to prevent enemy combatants from entering the country for good measure). It seems to me that this has been the strategy for almost a year. If the Dems start crowing about that tweet you’ll know they are catching on. This will continue to play out but make no mistake; Trump hasn’t “thrown us under the bus”