Trump says he’ll make ‘major announcement’ Saturday about partial shutdown, border ‘crisis’
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President Trump on Friday tweeted that he’ll make “a major announcement” Saturday afternoon concerning the ongoing partial government shutdownand the “humanitarian crisis” on the southern border.
The announcement will occur at 3 p.m. at the White House, the president said.
Funding for a barrier at the nation's southern border has been a point of contention between Republicans and Democrats during negotiations to end the partial shutdown, which began on Dec. 22. Trump has demanded almost $6 billion in funding for a wall or barrier, but Democrats have balked at that request.
The shutdown affects about one-quarter of the government, including nine Cabinet-level departments. It has also culminated in some 800,000 federal employees off the job or working without pay.
Earlier in the day, the president tweeted that the GOP was "so unified" and there would be "no 'cave' on the issue of Border and National Security."
"A beautiful thing to see, especially when you hear the new rhetoric spewing from the mouths of the Democrats who talk Open Border, High Taxes and Crime. Stop Criminals & Drugs now!" Trump tweeted.
The White House has been engrossed in a back-and-forth with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi this week after Trump on Thursday denied her the use of military aircraft for a foreign trip. Trump "postponed" the trip, citing the shutdown, just minutes before the congressional delegation was set to depart.
“We will reschedule this seven-day excursion when the Shutdown is over. In light of the 800,000 great American workers not receiving pay, I am sure you would agree that postponing this public relations event is totally appropriate,” Trump wrote. "I also feel that, during this period, it would be better if you were in Washington negotiating with me and joining the Strong Border Security movement to end the Shutdown."
While Trump pulled the plug on using military aircraft for the journey, he gave the Democratic leader the option of flying commercially.
"Obviously, if you would like to make your journey by flying commercial, that would certainly be your prerogative,” Trump wrote.
The move came after Pelosi requested Trump to delay the State of the Unionaddress amid the partial shutdown.
On Friday, the situation escalated when Pelosi's office accused the Trump administration of leaking plans for the congressional delegation to fly commercial to Afghanistan, saying the related security risks forced them to postpone the trip. However, the White House adamantly denied the leak allegation, calling it a "flat out lie."
Fox News' Alex Shaw, Brooke Singman, Chad Pergram, John Roberts and Kaitlyn Schallhorn contributed to this report.
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I hope he announces the national emergency and just goes forward to get the border secured
Except he will be challenged in court within minutes, the legal battle will last long beyond his presidency, and ultimately nothing will happen. But yeah, good times.
Any 'emergency' Trump declares that includes 're-appropriating' funds WILL be challenged and any number of litigants can do so in multiple venues. So your 'friendly lawsuit against themselves' scenario is moot.
The irony of a RIF of the currently furloughed workers is that so many of them are employed doing the business of carrying out Trump's agenda. DHS, Interior, DOJ, Treasury and State.
Oh and does your RIF include the MILLION + contractors who are furloughed?
BTW, WHY should Pelosi and Schumer CARE if Trump doesn't? WHY should they or would they bail Trump out of another self created debacle?
The notion of the "emergency" will be challenged immediately in court. And that will just be one lawsuit, that isn't even taking into account the numerous ED lawsuits that will take decades to get through.
You know that 90% of Treasury, Interior and Ag is furloughed right?
Really? You know that Education and Energy aren't furloughed right?
So would eliminating nuclear weapons.
Let me fix this for you...
The notion of "emergency" will be challenged immediately in a far left activist liberal court, such as in Hawaii, Seattle or the 9th circuit.
Hope that helps you.
I hope he announces the national emergency
Me too,
I'd love to see trump over step his authority in public for a change instead of behind our backs.
It’s fully within his executive powers. It would move quickly to the Supreme Court
It very well may be, But Is it justified, as you said it would quickly be questioned.
Then trump would need to prove his reasoning. Personally, I dont know that he could.
The optics never seem to bother this man, but to many this would show his willingness to once again do whatever he wants to try to get his way.
America is not set up to be ran, trumps way, for a reason. I might add.
NO ONE man ever gets his own way all of the time here. By design, it's called the constitution.
I don’t know a single Trump supporter who doesn’t support him doing whatever it takes to secure the border. It’s an issue that has conservative citizens as angry as I’ve ever seen in 60 years of political activism
I don’t know a single Trump supporter who doesn’t support him doing whatever.
Scary thought on any subject, problem or issue facing the nation.
IMO: NO ONE man should ever have that much free reign of power behind him, IF TRUE.
Because he’s finally doing what the phony Republicans promised for decades and never did. It’s as simple as that
why should we complain when we finally have a president doing what we’ve wanted
He doesn’t go nearly far enough for me but it’s still very positive compared to past presidents
Cutting taxes, appointing originality judges and justices, and rolling back regulations. Those 3 accomplishments are enough on their own to make Trump one of our best modern presidents
One of the major problems I have with trump is is ways and means of acplishmnet. Even when he does accomplish stuff usually its not well thought out, extreme and has much room for flaws, problems, and undesired consequences.
Everything takes time, Time will actually be the deciding factor of each president's term, trump is no exception. You may like what trump has done so far, but IMO: We have not really seen the full results of any of it yet.
I expected a nice upturn in our economy for this man based on his business background and his lack of wanted oversight,
I also exspect to see undesired results from much of anything done haphazardly as I believe this mans usually seems to do things.
I wish America Good luck often, And mean it. Unfortunately, I also deep down do not believe this is the man to make it happening long term.
PS: Neither was the beast so.. there is that.
I don’t know a single Trump supporter who doesn’t support him doing whatever it takes to secure the border.
I understand the reasoning, I dont agree with,"the solution."
I still feel NO ONE man should ever have that much free reign of power behind him.
"Absolute power absolutely corrupts" .. or something like that.
Trump just finished a MAJOR ANNOUNCEMENT,
He basically reworded and repeated last weeks speech,
complete with the same factual inaccuracies about the cost of drug use in this country which NHS says is correct only
IF you acknowledge that it includes tobacco and alcohol use.
Not much tobacco or alcohol coming across the borders......
Thanks I knew he was to speak today but haven't had a tv on so I Missed it, I'll check it out.
Well then I guess that means we don't have to even try an stop the other illegal drugs from coming into the country and
Yeah, after it was pointed out to Republicans that the drugs were not being moved across the open border but through ports of entry, thus the wall would do ZERO to stop the flow of illicit drugs into America. Before that they had been trying to use the flow of drugs as an excuse for spending billions on their stupid, pointless, boondoggle, measly 4 hr delay piece of shit wall.
While its great that president trump does do some stuff for the lower class and has even some consideration for the daca people, it does seem when it comes to those classes of people his solutions are always temporary, but his tax break for the wealthiest and businesses are permanent.
Not to be nit picky or anything, just sayin
ya sure ?
What kind of logic are you using, if any?
Cutting taxes, for the already wealthy and corporations? Who is that going to help, except the wealthy and corporations? It sure isn't a boon for the U.S. that's going to wonder why it has so little money coming in.
Besides, do you pay taxes as a missionary? Does your order pay taxes? aren't taxes sort of a earthly matter for you to worry about?
Originality, what a impressive way to say "new" which is fine because there is nothing original about packing the courts with ultra-conservative judges, they've been trying for years.
Don't like regulations, that seems odd, aren't most Religions just a list of laws, rules, rituals and regulations with a little guilt and fear thrown on them? You must agree with the SoS, who says that a country's economy and security must not be hampered by environmental concerns.
There's a new religion called trumpism, and trump is the ruler of the "originality" church and there shall be no other beings over him, and you shall not believe in any words or thoughts but the holy approved words or thoughts.
You haven't seen any trumpites in your neck of the woods, have you?
We should not negotiate with terrorists. Trump is holding those workers hostage all to fulfill a moronic campaign promise to bigoted pieces of shit not worthy of calling themselves Americans if they're too stupid to understand that a wall is not the answer to our illegal immigration problem.
So the real question is, how long will worthless pieces of shit continue to support this commander in-competent while he's extorting the American people? How long will they continue to enable a terrorist? How long will they keep making excuses for what they know in their hearts to be the biggest embarrassment America has ever suffered since the civil war?
"Personally I am willing"
Yeah, I get it, you don't give a shit about America or Americans and are willing to make America suffer to push a worthless authoritarians agenda.
"Without some additional border barrier I’m quite willing to go scorched earth on all the other matters. It is that simple. "
Without some evidence that a wall would actually solve fuck all I'm willing to let Republicans die on the vine as they are right now considering the majority blame them for the shutdown as they should. Pelosi is kicking the shit out of Trump politically right now, there's simply no way she is giving in to the petulant man baby or his sycophant human centipede of lips sewn to assholes in a continuous chain trailing behind him. Trump and his followers will forever be remembered as a cautionary tale of what not to do, just like many of his supporters confederate ancestors who ended up on the wrong side of history by siding with hate, bigotry and ridiculing education in favor of ignorant superstitions and racist indoctrination.
Let the shutdown continue then. I’m fine with that
The income tax is a Marxist evil. Our founders considered it to be part of tyrannical governments
yes I pay taxes and no non profit organizations don’t pay taxes. But what does that have to do with my post?
originalist is a school of interpreting the Constitution as it’s written.
Christianity has been called a religion, but is in actuality about restoring mankind’s personal relationship with God as it was with Adam and Eve where YHWH (Jesus) walked and talked with them in the Garden. It certainly is NOT about rules and regulations
cutting back federal regulations is about returning the federal government to following the Constitution
We who support Trump do so because he is the first president in decades to actually do what we have demanded of politicians for many decades. That’s why many like myself don’t belong to any political parties. I left the GOP in 1970 because they were too socialist
I think it more likely that you were too radical. If both the Republicans and Democrats are "too socialist" for you, then maybe it's you who don't belong, not the hundreds of millions of Americans who vehemently disagree with you.
Did you admonish Obama the same way when he was using "his position to pen and his phone" to try to govern?
Yes much more when he started doing it without a lengthy fight that ended in a lengthy standoff.
I've never been in favor of "the pen" at all. That Is one man taking too much control IMO and even when effective and or seemingly necessary its too easily reversible. Creating an untrustworthy long term government to deal with.
Well thought out long term laws and regulations are more of a stabilizing factor which is good for investors, the economy, the nation and the world at large.
That needs congress. Not a pen and one man's idea of what the best solution is.
'k, you have a right to your point of view, I'm just trying to figure out and understand how and where you got it.
When you start figuring your income in the high five figures you're wealthy. When you figure your income in six digits or more, you're rich, as a quick rule of thumb. Investments, property and other assets count in also.
A comedy comment to reality
Gee: What if Mr. Trump made a major announcement and no one listened?
Mr. Trump and His reality show have run their course, time to cancel this show for the season.
Don't fret, you'll always have the reruns.
The Trump show will be on for the next six years. Then we'll get the Mike Pence spin off.
Lol, kinda like how the GOP would be fine in the midterms?
Or they both are indicted and Pelosi becomes president with Ocasio Cortez as Secretary of The Treasury.
HOLY CRACKERS
"Lol, kinda like how the GOP would be fine in the midterms?"
The GOP gained seats in the Senate during the midterms and defeated four incumbent Dems.
Can't be indicted? Why?
Absolutely. However, laws, amendments, Constitutional interpretations will change. Then, some who found protection behind 'the document' ( Constitution ) may find themselves under assault by that very same document.
Nothing in that link is law. It's an opinion.
Well good. Because they left enough room in there to indict without a problem.
Checked on that...SCOTUS doesn't have an opinion.
Again all you have is a conservative "go to" opinion.
Already read it and obviously you have not.
It's an opinion, not a rule or law.
First of all, I'm not the one that said the SCOTUS did comment on it.
Secondly, SCOTUS doesn't prosecute either but they are called on to interpret law according to the constitution. So, yes, they would have an opinion. And since the constitution itself does not address the method....
The rest of the partisan propaganda I'll leave with you
I said rule or law.
The rest just as obvious as most times.
A rational discussion without what one thinks is a clever jab is not possible here at this moment.
Now, if you'll excuse me please I'll go discuss with others.
Wow, good for you, and the GOP lost how many seats in the House? In 2020 there's going to be a lot of seats in the Senate are going to up for election and I expect a repeat of what happened in the House.
Then with all them GOPers in there for so long, why don't we ALREADY have a wall?
They can't answer that either.
They're still trying to convince themselves that the shutdown that happened when all three branches were under Republican control is somehow the fault of the Democrats.
What if the Trump's big announcement is----------Melania defected to Slovenia while Ivanka and Jared applied for asylum in Israel?
Boy, that'd be something, right?
And take it out of Trumpanian back to English it reads:
"My wife just left me, and the kids are on the run from NYS prosecution."
Saw the Trump speech. Murder, rape, drugs and mayhem. The base has been fed.
trump only made the offer knowing the dems would refuse.
he will declare an emergency to build the wall and no one can say he did not try to get it done thru legislation
patience is key
Money is also the key. Our money. Mexico ain't paying, we are.
why is it ONLY the left does not get that "they are gonna pay for it" does not mean they will write a check up front? there are many ways to take it out of their backside.
everyone else gets it... why is the left so fukin slow? hint: they aren't slow... they are just obstinate.
but that matters not... all that matters is the border will be secured by a physical barrier and that can not be stopped.
the left can only further show its ass by supporting illegals over citizens = we are counting on this
what ?? it sure seems that was the plan - to have them write a check up front .. check out this Trump Memo from April 2016... looks like he campaigned on exactly " they are gonna pay for it " including writing a check up front :
so why would you state that it doesn't mean what Donald Trump obviously meant ?
Sure. ( laughing ) The only 'backside' is ours. ( Still laughing )
Something wrong here, "that woman" knew that there was no way to keep trump from preforming for any kind of audience, and the fastest way for her to get trump to do something is to tell him she doesn't want him to do it.
So I suspect she's up to something no-good against the king. I mean president "t".
she is just scared of her lunatic leftwing base
if she makes a deal with trump she loses that gavel in a blink.
cheers
Yep...he put himself in a corner and he's not getting out without being exposed twice.
The first time for his mouth chattering lies that are catching up to him.
The second.....that a woman is kicking his ass.
Oh look! Out there...it's....it's ...Why yes, it's even more Republican women and their daughters walking away from the conservatives. And over there...a bunch of young women coming. They see advancement, support, inclusion, respect.
I stopped underestimating this man long ago. I have little doubt he'll come out of "the corner" doing just fine... In his own mind at least, therefore this won't slow him down it will instead add to his bitterness though..
IMO: trump still sees himself as a Boss not a part of our government.
Bosses dont like it when they are told NO. He's no exception.
This announcement turned out to be a nothing burder
I thought President Hamberder was supposed to be a big deal maker? He can't even sell this shit sandwich to his own party! I keep laughing as his numbers keep plunging...
The Hamberder In Chief would have been better off if he used the emergency bullshit at his boarder speech to open the government and let the wall crap work through the courts. He wouldn't have gotten his wall, but he would at least had a better narrative. The longer the closure the worst it gets for the GOP in 2020.
HA HA HA HA!
Trump caved! Government opening back up...no money for the wall....
Who knew? Oh wait, I did!
The big announcement is that fat fuck gave in and the wall is finished lol.