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Originally Posted by simplicitus
He's lying. There's a reason he didn't declare a national emergency. McConnell, who doesn't want a dem president declaring a national health care emergency, probably told Trump that if he called an emergency then the Senate would pass the house bill with no wall funding. The Pres. would have to use military funds for a while and then would have to provide detailed info about the emergency for any additional funding after 120 days or something.
It's such a bad idea that I'm surprised Trump didn't do it.
Still catching up but I mostly agree with this and it’s impact going forward.
I’m not giving any credit to congressional republicans other than they have an actual jeopardy radar. There will not likely be a shutdown in three weeks. In fact congress has dumped everything on trump now and they will be able to bypvass them.
Trump took this as a way out and will be moved on to something else.