On this weekend’s broadcast of “Fox News Sunday,” Sen. Roy Blunt (R-MO) said if President Donald Trump invoked his emergency powers to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border it would be a “bad precedent.” Blunt said, “I happen to
The four GOP Senators picked for the border security conference committee are not leaders in the high-risk immigration issue, ensuring the Senate Majority Leader and the president will decide the next stage of the immigraiton and border wall controversy.
“We’ll work with the Democrats and negotiate and if we can’t do that, then obviously we’ll do the emergency because that’s what it is. It’s a national emergency.”
The White House is preparing a much-anticipated plan to have President Donald Trump declare a national emergency at the southern border, CNN reported Thursday evening.
White House adviser Jared Kushner is urging President Trump not to declare a national emergency at the United States-Mexico border that would allow the administration to take steps to build a wall to stop soaring illegal immigration and a deadly inflow of drug trafficking.
As of Saturday, when the partial government shutdown hits day number 22, the government will have been shut down for the longest time ever in the history of the United States of America.
CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta appeared to inadvertently make the case on Thursday for a steel version of President Donald Trump’s border wall.
Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade on Thursday cautioned President Donald Trump against declaring a national emergency to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, stating it would be a “disaster and set “a terrible precedent.”
During a Thursday appearance on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-TX) discussed what the Democrats’ response would be if Trump declared a national emergency at the border. Castro said if that were to happen, Democrats would challenge Trump every
Senator Bernie Sanders reacted to President Donald Trump’s address to the nation on the southern border Tuesday night by claiming the president is “creating an artificial crisis,” and the “biggest crisis of all” may be climate change.
Democrats’ message will be that there is no crisis that merits building a barrier on the border. The only crisis is that the government is partially closed.
Vice President Mike Pence told reporters Monday that the White House counsel’s office is looking into and the president is considering declaring a national emergency over the crisis at the U.S. southern border.
