National Emergency Declaration

• U.S. Senate likely has votes to reject Trump’s national emergency declaration

  Opponents of President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexico border appear to have enough Senate votes to reject his move, now that Republican Rand Paul of Kentucky has said he can't go along with the White House.

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  Mar 3, 2019
  
• Ex-U.S. security leaders to come out against Trump’s national emergency declaration

  The statement has 58 signatures from prominent former officials, including former Secretaries of State Madeline Albright and John Kerry, former Defence Secretaries Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta and former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.

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  Feb 24, 2019
  
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• Democrats ready vote to block Trump from using national emergency to fund border wall

  Democrats controlling the House have teed up a vote next week to block President Donald Trump from using a national emergency declaration to fund a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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  Feb 23, 2019
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• Fox News anchor grills top Trump aide about national emergency declaration

  In a tense Fox News interview on Sunday, policy advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump Stephen Miller defended the president's national emergency declaration and suggested that a veto was a possibility if Congress disapproves.

  Entertainment

  Feb 18, 2019
• Trump said he’d be sued over his emergency declaration. Enter three landowners from the Texas border

  Texas landowners argue the wall could cut them off from land that's been in their families for generations.

  Politics

  Feb 16, 2019