President Donald Trump seems to have scored a significant political win with the announcement Thursday that he will sign Congress’s deal on border security — while at the same time declaring a national emergency to build the portion of the “wall” that the deal would not fund.
“President Trump will sign the government funding bill, and as he has stated before, he will also take other executive action – including a national emergency – to ensure we stop the national security and humanitarian crisis at the border,” White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
Angel families and Women for Trump will hold a press conference outside the White House Thursday to urge President Donald Trump not to sign a bipartisan spending bill that prevents another partial government shutdown but provides only about a quarter of the wall funding the president requested.
In an appearance on CNN on Wednesday, Rep. Tom Reed (R-NY) urged his fellow Democrat House colleagues to accept a deal that would give President Donald Trump $1.3 billion for a border wall. Reed explained that $1.3 billion was a
Angel families stormed into House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office again Wednesday with calls to secure the U.S. southern border, but they were turned away yet again.
President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he was not ready to commit to signing the congressional compromise funding bill for border security until he read the final text.
Angel families will be joined by current and former elected officials and pro-Trump groups Wednesday, calling on Congress to secure the border.
“I have to study it. I’m not happy about it. It’s not doing the trick,” Trump said during a cabinet meeting at the White House when asked if he would sign the deal.
Arizona Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, slammed details of the deal on border funding reached by congressional negotiators .
President Donald Trump declared at a rally stage in El Paso, Texas, Monday night that regardless of whether Congress makes progress on a funding deal, “We’re building the wall anyway.”
“They put the fence up and ever since then, the crime rate has gone down dramatically,” one person said in a video filmed by the Trump campaign.
President Donald Trump ridiculed potential presidential opponent Beto O’Rourke on Monday for having fewer supporters lining up to see him in El Paso.
President Donald Trump is holding his first Make America Great Again rally of 2019 in the El Paso County Coliseum in Texas, Monday at 7:00 p.m. MT.
Failed Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke will rally Monday against President Donald Trump in El Paso, Texas.
President Donald Trump reacted Monday to new demands from House Democrats to cap the detention of illegal immigrants in the United States.
But in theory, an agreement should be possible, because the changes the Trump administration seeks at the border are not radical, and because Democrats have agreed in the past to similar physical barriers to what Trump is proposing.
President Donald Trump promised Tuesday to keep a flood of migrants from the southern border by sending in more military forces.
We added 304,000 jobs, which was a shocker to a lot of people,” President Trump, referring to economist estimates of about 150,000 jobs, said during a White House event about border security. “It wasn’t a shocker to me.”
Demcorats unveiled their proposal for addressing the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border this week, and it includes funding for a new polar icebreaker for the U.S. Coast Guard.
President Donald Trump said ex-speaker Paul Ryan failed to deliver funding for a wall on the Southern border, despite a promise to do so.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy lambasted Democrat leaders from the House floor Wednesday for putting politics before country and vacationing during the shutdown.
Mark Meckler, president of Citizens for Self-Governance, told Breitbart News that 95 percent of Republican voters support President Trump using “emergency powers” to build a U.S.-Mexico border wall. He also warned that Trump support from Republican voters would collapse if he failed to build the wall.
President Donald Trump warned the bipartisan Congressional compromise committee on Wednesday to include funding for physical barriers on the border.
Arizona ranchers on the southern border are again inviting Nancy Pelosi — including airfare and accommodation — to visit their locales.
No press was present for the bill signing, which ended the 35-day partial government shutdown – the longest in history.
“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.”
President Donald Trump announced Friday a plan to end the partial government shutdown, by temporarily caving to Democrat demands to reopen the government. Trump agreed to reopen the government for three weeks while negotiations continued — with no apparent wall
Federal law could not be more clear that President Donald Trump can declare a national emergency at the U.S.-Mexican border, and that such a declaration gives him access to all the funding he needs to build the wall.
“Without a Wall our Country can never have Border or National Security. With a powerful Wall or Steel Barrier, Crime Rates (and Drugs) will go substantially down all over the U.S. The Dems know this but want to play political games. Must finally be done correctly,” he wrote. “No Cave!”
French authorities have built a ten-foot wall at a petrol station in Calais used by migrants who attempt to board lorries and break into Britain.
“This is not a 2000 mile concrete structure from sea-to-sea,” Trump said. “These are steel barriers in high priority locations.”
President Donald Trump will address Americans from the White House Saturday at 4 p.m. with a “major announcement” on the “humanitarian crisis” on the southern border.
Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed support for rapper Cardi B Friday after she lashed out at Trump and his “racist” supporters this week.
“We have problems… in the areas of education, and health care, and criminal justice as a result of too many people that don’t accept our culture, don’t speak our language, don’t share our values in our country.”
Mark Green (R-TN) told Breitbart News that House Republicans are in “lockstep” and “all together” on the issue of border security.
“While many Democrats in the House and Senate would like to make a deal, Speaker Pelosi will not let them negotiate,” Trump said. “The party has been hijacked by the open borders fringe within the party, the radical left becoming the radical Democrats.”
Victims of illegal alien crime used House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office Tuesday to evidence that she used walls as a barrier, and it worked.
Actor and professional Trump impersonator Alec Baldwin took to Twitter on Tuesday to suggest the need for a wall to keep out President Trump.
Rep. Markwayne Mullin (R-OK) told Breitbart News that House Democrats blocked his proposed legislation to fund Indian Health Services (IHS), whose annual funding is in jeopardy due ongoing partial federal government shutdown.
President Donald Trump pointed Wednesday to modern walls built around the world used successfully to secure borders and protect citizens.
