Posted on 01/08/2019 2:02:55 PM PST by Mariner
WASHINGTON—President Trump isn’t expected to declare a national emergency at the southern border when he addresses the nation Tuesday night about his request for funding for his long-promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico boundary, according to a person who has reviewed drafts of the speech.
The president’s speech didn’t include any declaration of a national emergency, according to the person. Instead, the speech seeks to explain the president’s rationale for why he viewed the situation at the border as a crisis. Mr. Trump has said he wouldn’t sign any bill ending the partial government shutdown, which is now in its third week, that doesn’t allocate money for hundreds of miles of a border wall.
The president, according to the draft, will make his case by noting the movement of illegal drugs across the southern border and by sharing stories of human trafficking across the U.S.-Mexico line. A White House spokeswoman declined to comment.
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He should declare California a state of insanity.
He's learned the advantage of dragging out what should be a slam-dunk into a couple of years -- and he learned it from the Demagogic Party's Lawfare against his Presidency. Thanks Mariner.
That’s exactly how it is. There’s no good that Trump can do, in the eyes of the Trump-deranged.
President Trump will announce the wall will not be made of concrete or steel, but the bones of his enemies.
He should lay out a giant “caravan map” of Central America (similar to a hurricane map), showing the new caravans forming in various countries and their projected paths.
“Trump UNLIKELY To Win Election!”
Flashback from 2016... ;-)
“We the People fund the Wall update.”
I’m already funding plenty of money for the wall.
We’re giving over $10 billion to the nations that send all these illegals our way.
It’s insanity that those aid dollars can’t be halved to satisfy President Trump’s entirely reasonable need for wall funds...
Take the money from the foreign aid that we are no longer going to give to those countries and use it for the wall.
WHO LEAKED IT!?!?!?
PRISON!!!!!!!
Stop them from coming and we no longer pay welfare etc for them. Less criminals in our prisons. Less on our Medicaid.
$19,647,307
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