{"id":35485,"date":"2019-02-14T21:47:41","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35485"},"modified":"2019-02-14T21:47:41","modified_gmt":"2019-02-14T21:47:41","slug":"trump-wins-but-declares-emergency-anyway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35485","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;wins,&#8217; but declares emergency anyway?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trumpdonald_inauguralfund_120718getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-34877\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trumpdonald_inauguralfund_120718getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trumpdonald_inauguralfund_120718getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/trumpdonald_inauguralfund_120718getty.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What am I missing here?<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump said that we&#8217;re already building The Wall along our southern border. A bipartisan group of senators and House members have worked out a deal to keep the government functioning fully while spending $1.37 billion for more fencing\/wall\/barriers along our southern border.<\/p>\n<p>The president said he is &#8220;unhappy&#8221; with the agreement. The Senate has approved it. He said he&#8217;ll sign it.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but then the president reportedly is going to declare a &#8220;national emergency&#8221; to push ahead with more construction of The Wall.<\/p>\n<p>Holy crap, man! My head is spinning . . . rapidly!<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said she might file a legal challenge to the president&#8217;s effort to usurp Congress&#8217;s budgeting authority; Trump&#8217;s declaration would enable him, he says, to divert money from other projects to build The Wall.<\/p>\n<p>The speaker says, in effect, &#8220;No can do, Mr. President, and I might take you to court to prove my point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/senate-passes-border-security-plan\/ar-BBTB5FD?li=BBnb7Kz\">McConnell flips on emergency<\/a><\/p>\n<p>What puzzles me is that Donald Trump and his allies have declared victory, more or less, because they contend The Wall already is being built. Why, then, declare a national emergency? Indeed, there is no emergency on the border.<\/p>\n<p>I am going to agree with Nancy Pelosi, who said today that the president ought to declare the rash of gun violence in our schools and other public places as a <em>real national emergency.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What am I missing here? Donald Trump said that we&#8217;re already building The Wall along our southern border. A bipartisan group of senators and House members have worked out a deal to keep the government functioning fully while spending $1.37 billion for more fencing\/wall\/barriers along our southern border. The president said he is &#8220;unhappy&#8221; with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=35485\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump &#8216;wins,&#8217; but declares emergency anyway?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[709,1424,2245,3178,8273,4784],"class_list":["post-35485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-border-security","tag-donald-trump","tag-immigration","tag-nancy-pelosi","tag-national-emergency","tag-the-wall"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35486,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35485\/revisions\/35486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}