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.
Maybe President Trump is acting. The steel plants are manufacturing the barrier panels, the Army Corp of Engineers are planning how the panels will be installed, men are being trained on how to put up the panels efficiently and the trucks are being secured to move the panels to the staging points. I imagine this is a project on the scale of the Manhattan Project with 21st Century technology.
When the emergency order is given, everything will be in place for the construction to begin. Imagine the barriers going up a mile per hour—faster than some Lefty moonbat judge can pull a rabbit out of his southern chamber!
Like Trump said, “It’s off to the races!”
My Dad used to call this:
Giving you enough rope to hang yourself.......
while Nancy goes back to passing gas
The air is slowly going out of MAGA.
Another point is this: While everything you say maybe true, you know "Madame President Nancy" as she is now known, Chuckie and the DEMON RATS are going to get a court ordered injunction issued within minutes or hours of Trump's declaration, what ever it may be, to "immediately cease and desist all actions". The big question is will he ignore the DEMON RATS, THEIR MINION JUDGES, AND THE COURTS AND BUILD IT ANYWAY?
Yes, it's not like there's any way to see what he said during the day, or read a transcript later, right?
I hope and pray that you are correct. However, at this point, I will believe it when I see him A C T.
If you’re at work, you probably wouldn’t know that PDJT gave a speech.
And the first thing that working people might hear about speech after the fact may only be that shutdown is temporarily over.
Yeah probably. I wonder what would happen if he ignored them, ignored a court order. It’s insane, I really can’t see how a court with a lunatic judge can supersede the authority of the President. Imagine if a 20 million foreign army was marching towards our borders having declared war on us, said they are going to kill every man, woman, child when they get here and Trump declares a state of emergency orders the military and a wall immediately built, a freakin’ psycho judge can stop him putting million of lives at risk? That’s crazy, and that’s exactly what’s happening isn’t it. 60,000 die every year from the drug poison coming over.
What home land security bill?
BIG WRONG. Congress is in derelict of duty, they all sworn an oath to protect this country, and they are refusing their duty.
That is how this will get framed.
Unfortunately, when a corrupt media does NOT give the public an accurate account, plans to expose the dems are greatly diminished.
It is my understanding that the Courts have no control over a National Emergency.
what the heck is the point in going through all of this nonsense?
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The revelation of the Dems’ duplicity, and their actual policy concerning the defense of our borders, and on the protection of American citizens. The populus must see how the Democrat Party has truly become un-American.
The corrupt press will give them cover - you need an honest press for an informed citizenry.
I hope so, but if that’s the case why hasn’t Trump done it yet? Without question the open border is costing lives.
the court? nothing.
the house? impeachment.
he can fast track to the SCOTUS yes.. out come you would think would be in his favor. RBG might start stinking so bad they can’t hide it anymore.
Will the military follow orders? how many Obama holdovers are still there?
How fast will the house Impeach him?
He is moving forward carefully, I don’t think anything will stop him at least not permanently.
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