Posted on 02/15/2019 1:41:35 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
President Trump said on Friday that he "didn't need to" declare a national emergency but did it to speed up construction of the U.S.-Mexico border wall.
"I want to do it faster. I could do the wall over a longer period of time. I didn't need to do this, but I'd rather do it much faster," Trump said during a press conference at the Rose Garden in the White House.
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Everyone is going off half cocked! NOBODY really KNOWS what is in the deal or what exactly it means, or what will happen.
Cool your jets. Let it play out. Trump has been looking at this for months. They know what they are doing. I’m sure they are ready for court challenges. I read/heard somewhere that the “national emergency” declaration only applied to ONE of the money pools. The others are not likely to see court challenges. We’ll see.
TRASHING Trump over this is counter productive and ignorant.
TRUST TRUMP!
Thanks Trebb...
I agree with your take on it also. Thought you probably knew that, but I wanted to reinforce the thought.
He is saying that Congress could have funded it. That that would have been a better way. And 1 billion at a time is too slow. That’s exactly what he was saying. He’s been saying it all along.
Thank you.....too many here willing to cut off their noses to spite their faces .... the only thinking they do is “I think I ain’t happy because things aren’t going the way I dream of them in my fantasies”.....
Congress had enough votes to override it.
I think he had a plan to attach it other current fencing already being constructed.
Yeah, I agree.
You know, it’s tough getting snookered. Sometimes you can’t help it, but you hope you can come back an pick up the win later.
It’s that way in sports. You can start off a season lousy, and then turn it around and win the series to finish it off.
We have to be smart losers. I think Trump milked this for all it was worth. He gave the Left something to crow about, but got us the wall we have to have.
We’ll address these shortcomings in time.
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