President Trump is set to hold an event at 10 a.m. in the Rose Garden at White House, where he is expected to sign spending legislation to avert a government shutdown while at the same declare a national emergency with the aim of securing about $6.5 billion more to build his long-promised border wall without congressional approval.
Many of Trump’s Republican allies have called the move ill-advised, and Democrats are promising immediate action aimed at blocking it. The declaration is expected to face an array of legal challenges, possibly including from congressional Democrats.
Friday’s planned announcement follows passage of a 1,169-page spending bill that provides $1.375 billion for 55 miles of new fences along the border in Texas, far short of the $5.7 billion Trump had sought for 234 miles of steel walls.
<hr style="margin-top:-10px;margin-bottom:-10px;" />7:30 a.m.: Senior official says Trump moving forward, prepared to veto legislative effort to block emergency declaration
Russell Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget, said on a call Friday morning with Trump supporters and surrogates that it will “shock” people how quickly the administration is moving toward contracting and construction of the wall, according to a participant on the call.
Vought also said that Trump would “absolutely veto” any legislative effort to block his declaration of a national emergency, according to the participant.
House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) said Thursday that he plans to introduce a resolution of disapproval that would overturn the declaration, calling it a “a gross abuse of power that cannot be tolerated.”
Under the National Emergencies Act, House passage of a disapproval resolution would trigger automatic consideration by the Senate, where a simple majority vote would be required to agree to it.
Given opposition from some Republicans, that raises the prospect that a disapproval resolution would pass the narrowly divided Senate in an embarrassing rebuke to Trump.
That would force him to veto the bill if he wants to move forward.
<hr style="margin-top:-10px;margin-bottom:-10px;" />7 a.m.: Trump seeking a total of roughly $8 billion for wall and barriers
The White House has identified roughly $8 billion that it believes can be used toward building walls and other barriers along the U.S.-Mexico border.
In addition to $1.375 billion included in the bill passed by Congress, Trump plans to draw money from a mixture of drug forfeiture funds, military projects and other accounts, according to a government officials briefed on the strategy, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a plan that has not been announced publicly.
Trump is eyeing about $600 million from a Treasury Department drug forfeiture fund and $2.5 billion from a Department of Defense drug interdiction program, according to the officials.
In addition, the president wants to use $3.6 billion in military construction funds to help build his border wall. The latter step would require declaring a national emergency.
<hr style="margin-top:-10px;margin-bottom:-10px;" />6:45 a.m.: National emergency expected to draw a multitude of lawsuits
If President Trump declares a national emergency to construct a wall on the southern border, only one thing is certain: There will be lawsuits. Lots of them. From California to Congress, the litigants will multiply.
They will file suit in numerous jurisdictions — certainly within the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on the West Coast, in U.S. District Court in Washington and maybe even in New York. That’s been the pattern in the hundreds of lawsuits, many of them successful, brought against the Trump administration, the idea being that some judge somewhere will block the wall.
Read more here from The Post’s Fred Barbash, Ellen Nakashima and Josh Dawsey.
<hr style="margin-top:-10px;margin-bottom:-10px;" />6:30 a.m.: Trump came close to allowing another shutdown
After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday.
Headed for another defeat on his signature promise to make Mexico pay for a southern border wall, the president was frustrated after a briefing by Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and others on details of the final deal to avoid a shutdown, according to officials involved in the discussions. Trump threatened not to sign the legislation, the officials said, putting the government on the brink of another damaging shutdown.
Read more here from The Post’s Robert Costa, Rachael Bade, Josh Dawsey and Seung Min Kim.
Erica Werner, Seung Min Kim and Rachael Bade contributed to this report.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-border-emergency-the-president-plans-a-10-am-announcement-in-the-rose-garden/2019/02/15/f0310e62-3110-11e9-86ab-5d02109aeb01_story.html
2019-02-15 12:56:53Z
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