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Exclusive: White House preparing draft national emergency order and identified $7 billion for wall
CNN ^ | 01/24/19 | By Priscilla Alvarez and Tammy Kupperman

Posted on 01/24/2019 3:05:37 PM PST by blueyon

Washington (CNN)The White House is preparing a draft proclamation for President Donald Trump to declare a national emergency along the southern border and has identified more than $7 billion in potential funds for his signature border wall should he go that route, according to internal documents reviewed by CNN. Trump has not ruled out using his authority to declare a national emergency and direct the Defense Department to construct a border wall as Congress and the White House fight over a deal to end the government shutdown.

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KEYWORDS: bordersecurity; buildthewall; clintonnonnews; cnn; cnnfakenews; dnctalkingpoint; dnctalkingpoints; doit; drugs; finally; geterdone; illegals; immigration; maga; mediabias; nationalemergency; postus; trump; trumpwall
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To: blueyon

Hope it’s true.


101 posted on 01/24/2019 5:59:29 PM PST by EdnaMode
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To: Pilgrim's Progress

Yes, but is CNN a reputable news source?

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Does a lion use a knife and fork?


102 posted on 01/24/2019 6:07:43 PM PST by laplata (The Left/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: BOBWADE

But........John Roberts is still vertical.


103 posted on 01/24/2019 6:14:12 PM PST by umgud
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To: blueyon

How to steal a nation:

Allow illegals to be counted in the Census.
Open borders.
Increase representation in Congress and that adds Electoral votes.


104 posted on 01/24/2019 6:18:18 PM PST by NoLibZone (Trump's exposed a life long, professional ruling class that can't be removed without violence.)
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To: blueyon

Another bluff, unlikely to work unless the desire is to be given the middle finger by Pelosi.


105 posted on 01/24/2019 6:18:30 PM PST by CatOwner
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To: Col Frank Slade

Yep. While I absolutely believe it is being considered in some form, until a source other than CNN, MSNBC, WaPo, etc. conforms it I won’t believe it.


106 posted on 01/24/2019 6:24:35 PM PST by matt04
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To: Pilgrim's Progress
Yes, but is CNN a reputable news source?

As sure as I can juggle flaming chainsaws while riding a unicycle.

107 posted on 01/24/2019 6:29:32 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: blueyon

FEMA has 58 billion for national emergencies


108 posted on 01/24/2019 6:36:03 PM PST by OafOfOffice (W.C:Socialism:Philosophy of failure,creed of ignorance,gospel of envy,the equal sharing of misery)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
Yes. Trump needs to get it done now in case he doesn't run again ( i think he will). The first thing the dems would do if a dem wins the presidency would stop the construction as soon as he's gone. It needs to get built and start showing everyone how effective it is ASAP.
109 posted on 01/24/2019 6:38:58 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: cquiggy

How big is the caravan this time?


110 posted on 01/24/2019 6:41:07 PM PST by dandiegirl (BO)
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To: BOBWADE

Probably still alive but will not have the strength to resume full time court duties. I expect a long 2 year vacation first or will WORK FROM HOME for 2 years.


111 posted on 01/24/2019 6:52:24 PM PST by entropy12 (One million LEGAL immigrants/year is too many, without vetting for skills, Wealth or English skills.)
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To: blueyon

Just an idea:

Move the sections of the wall near San Deago somewhere else since Pelosi says they re immoral.


112 posted on 01/24/2019 7:05:10 PM PST by cymbeline
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To: blueyon

Why not the original $25 billion. You could get that by siphoning off a year’s worth of defense pork.


113 posted on 01/24/2019 7:10:38 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (Ya lyublyu kovfefe!)
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To: blueyon

This idea sets a terrible precedent.

If this works, you can bet your bottom dollar the next time there is a Democratic President and the Republicans control one of the chambers of Congress, or both, we’ll be getting the “Climate Change National Emergency” measure with a half-trillion dollars of spending attached. Not to mention the “Health Care National Emergency” with a trillion-dollar single-payer scheme attached, followed immediately by the “Undocumented Immigrant National Emergency” multi-billion dollar amnesty/citizenship program.

This essentially end-runs around the Constitution to establish a borderline dictatorship.

In addition, if Trump does go this route, what will happen is the Democrats will fight with every legal delaying trick in the book. Not a dime will be spent on actual construction for months as it winds its way through the courts, and it’s incredibly unlikely significant portions of the wall will be finished by 2020 or 2024, at which point the Democrat President will declare the Emergency over, stop the construction and you’ll have a half-finished, graffitti-covered thing, forever linked to the Trump Presidency and the Republican party hanging over the South and the Border as the greatest white-elephant project in the nation’s history.

Make Congress pass a law.

Follow the Constitution.


114 posted on 01/24/2019 7:23:59 PM PST by Taipei
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To: NoLibZone

That’s pretty much the danger with the illegal aliens pouring into our country

I think Judicial Watch won a lawsuit in CA and I think other states and cleaning up the problem in CA

The number of voters in LA is 112% of the adult population

Similar figures in many areas


115 posted on 01/24/2019 7:52:25 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

Best place to get money is to stop the welfare education and medical benefits to all non-citizens in the United States

Hundreds of billions

If there actually is pork in the defense funds use it to build the wall


116 posted on 01/24/2019 7:55:58 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: Taipei

“Make Congress pass a law.”

I totally get what you are saying and you may well be entirely correct.

But you can’t make Congress pass a law. They won’t...they can’t...it is impossible, with a country as broken and in throes of societal revolution as this one is, with a government that is wholly and completely opposed to the wishes of its own people, to get Congress to pass anything at all of substance.

The Constitution is dead.

The country is dead.


117 posted on 01/24/2019 8:05:25 PM PST by Scott from the Left Coast (You may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you...)
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To: All

Annual cost of illegal immigration by state:

CA.. $21.8 Billion
NY.. $9.5 Billion
TX.. $8.9 Billion
FL.. $5.5 Billion
IL.. $4.6 Billion
NJ.. $3.5 Billion
AZ.. $2.6 Billion
GA. $2.4 Billion

Annual national cost over $84 billion

Illegals are a financial drain on our country— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 25, 2019


118 posted on 01/24/2019 8:11:09 PM PST by Syncro (Facts is Facts)
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To: blueyon

119 posted on 01/24/2019 8:15:00 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn)
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To: Taipei

The way I understand “National Emergency” is that the President can use unallocated money for national emergencies. The President can’t unilaterally add or change taxes. So there is no way a single-payer scheme can be created by a President alone.
How long would a fight to the Supreme Court take? The Hobby Lobby case started in September 2012 when Hobby Lobby files a suit in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma. The Supreme Court ruled in favor of Hobby Lobby in June 2014. So the Supreme Court could rule in favor of Trump in less than 2 years.


120 posted on 01/24/2019 9:41:15 PM PST by convoter2016
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