After weeks of brandishing the threat of invoking a national emergency, President Trump is going ahead and declaring one.
“President Trump will sign the government funding bill,” White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Thursday afternoon, “and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action — including a national emergency — to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border.”
Trump had earlier declared his unhappiness with the $1.375 billion that Congress is providing for a border barrier in a spending bill that keeps the government operating through the end of September. That outlay is less than a quarter of the $5.7 billion Trump had sought for a wall along the border with Mexico.
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