Post #413

Trump Declares a National Emergency, and Provokes a Constitutional Clash President Trump declared a national emergency on the border with Mexico on Friday in order to access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall there, transforming a highly charged policy dispute into a confrontation over the separation of powers outlined in the Constitution. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/15/us/politics/national-emergency-trump.html