Posted on 01/28/2019 8:25:36 AM PST by SeekAndFind
The White House said on Friday night that Donald Trump will "move forward" with funding for a wall along the southern border "with our without the Democrats."
Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee tweeted the warning while she defended the president against conservative criticism that he caved on wall funding in order to end the shutdown.
The president refused to characterize the deal as a "concession":
For weeks, Trump said he would not sign a funding measure that did not include money for a border wall.
At various points he suggested that he would declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress to build a border wall, but resisted taking such a move, which would surely prompt legal challenges.
The president indicated Friday that if lawmakers do not offer funding for a wall when the three-week measure ends on Feb. 15, another shutdown could begin or he could declare an emergency to build the wall.
“We’ll work with the Democrats and negotiate, and if we can’t do that, then we’ll do a – obviously we’ll do the emergency because that’s what it is. It’s a national emergency,” Trump told reporters in the Roosevelt Room of the White House.
Trump's announcement that he would sign a temporary spending bill without securing money for a border wall was met with backlash from conservatives, with immigration hard-liner Ann Coulter calling him the “biggest wimp ever to serve as president.”
So did Trump cave to the Democrats or is he playing possum? CNN has been reporting all week that the White House has been working on declaring a national emergency and would get funds to build the wall from various government sources, including the military.
What sounded like a contingency plan has taken on a new significance with the president's recent statements.
The president made his remarks during a White House event with Hispanic pastors on Friday to discuss the importance of security on the Southern border.
Earlier Friday, Trump specified that he would reopen the government for three weeks to give negotiators more time to work out a border security compromise. A bipartisan committee will work together with the Department of Homeland Security to come up with a border security package for the president to sign.
The president was still adamant about funding more physical barriers on the border.
“If we don’t have that wall and we don’t have a very powerful barrier, it’s all just a waste of time,” he wrote. “It can’t work. Can’t work. So we’ll get it.”
Huckabee's question to Democrats about whether they want "something or nothing" is pertinent. Pelosi has scored her political points and, if she was smart, she would walk away from the table.
But that would cause howls of outrage from #theresistance. Trump must not only be beaten, but he must also be stomped. The anti-Trump hysteria of Democrats may play into Trump's hands by forcing Pelosi to stand firm against any wall funding, allowing Trump to delight conservatives by declaring a national emergency on the border.
Trump's so-called cave-in to Democrats was only round one. Round two may be even more interesting -- and contentious.
Elections come down to which base is more energized.
Pretty much as the 2018 elections just showed. If there is no wall, I wouldn’t bet too much money on the Republican base being energized in 2020.
More bluffing by Trump. He’s still hoping the DEMs concede part of their position. I don’t see that happening.
That’s why the Democrats have decided to try to deny Trump as many victories as possible.
They will find a friendly judge who could give two poops about what trump has done and stop him..
it’s optics yes, but it’s not for the courts.
How will voting for Democrats and Not Republicans ( who actually VOTED TO FUND THE WALL before the end of 2018 ) get us the wall? That’s like jumping out of the frying pan into the fire.
they didn’t have to change from republican to democrat..
they just didn’t have to show up and vote.
That is exactly what happened in the midterms.
exactly..
and given the lack luster movement in the house on the wall when republicans controlled it, that is exactly how it played out in 2018..
We would not have 30+ million illegal aliens unless both parties were in on it.
President Trump is one of the very few in DC that side with the citizens and the rule of law.
Most of the elected GOP still want to complete the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA)
To all people on the Left who think they believe in open borders: If you lock your doors at night, you believe in borders. If you say who can and can’t come into your home, you believe in vetting. If someone squatted on your front lawn, you could demand they leave. If they didn’t, you could call the cops and when the cops arrived the person said they weren’t going to leave because they had rights, the cops would cuff them and haul them off.
Please tell us you’re not so stupid that you would have us believe you would protest the cops hauling the guy off your lawn.
As long as there is UnConstitutional affirmative action and
preferences there will be a large constituency that doesn’t
care. There are other separate large constituencies legal and otherwise that are in favor for many reasons, ayuda mi raza, los pobres, nuestros paises, make this a brown country, stick it to whitey and stick it to “the man”
“Latin” America is supposedly @40% white but those are the folks
staying put apparently. But it’s not just C./S. Americans...there’s tons
of illegal Asians on the coasts
"Madame President Nancy" then went on to further nationally humiliate and disgrace Trump by rubbing his nose it via POSTPONING the State of the Union Address. Once again proving for all to see that crazy Nancy and Chuckie are actually in charge and running the show.
They have also made it abundantly clear that they have absolutely no intention of ever funding, building the wall or "negotiating in good faith".
THEY WANT TO KILL HIS PRESIDENCY, REMOVE HIM FROM OFFICE, PUT HIM IN PRISON, OVERTHROW THE RESULTS OF THE ELECTION AND THE RULE OF LAW, AND TURN AMERICA INTO VENEZUELA BY PERMANENTLY REPLACING THE VOTING DEMOGRAPHICS AND "OVERWHELMING THE SYSTEM" WITH AN ILLITERATE, TOTALLY DEPENDANT UNDERCLASS OF CRIMINAL ILLEGAL ALIENS WHO WILL VOTE AND KEEP THE DEMON RATS IN POWER IN PERPETUITY. THAT IS THEIR GOAL AND NOTHING IS GOING TO STOP THEM FROM ACHIEVING IT BUT BUILDING A WALL, AND THEY KNOW IT!
As you said, NOTHING is going to change in three weeks and Trump knows it, so WHY DOESN'T HE A C T NOW? He looks sounds, and acts weak and indecisive.
Question is, who’s on the bench to do what’s needed?
Please don’t say Tres Howdy, Pence or Rand Paul.
I agree with you completely. As I have posted before: Trump is going to have to force the republicans to show their asses by overriding a veto or voting him out of office. He is going to have to use the maximum power given him by the Constitution and daring his own party to side with - what is now - the open borders, socialist, America-hating democrat party.
Trump can appeal directly to the Supreme Court then order a full military appearance at the border to start building a ‘temporary’ wall - say some standing frames ten feet high strung with razor wire. Just start rolling it out.
I'm not a Republican in my mind anymore. I'm a pro-Constitution Deplorable. If we're goin' down as a nation anyway, no way do I want those who destroyed this golden opportunity we had to save the nation to be in power.
To make it the law of the land, instead of decree.
He’s willing to ‘suck up’ that impression for a reason. We don’t know the reason yet but surely it isn’t about giving the democrats more time. Something’s afoot and in three weeks we will know what it is.
Wrong. The fact that Congress expressly refused the funding will doom Trumps case in court. He has mishandled this issue horribly and there will be no wall because of that.
Remember, this is clearly just a funding issue. The law of the land was set when congress passed, and "W" signed the 2006 Secure Fence Act, which authorized the construction of 700 miles of fence along the southern border. Its still on the books.
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