{"id":392230,"date":"2019-01-09T19:11:33","date_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-emergency-declaration-in-us-still-on-table\/"},"modified":"2019-01-09T19:11:33","modified_gmt":"2019-01-09T18:11:33","slug":"presstv-emergency-declaration-in-us-still-on-table","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/presstv-emergency-declaration-in-us-still-on-table\/","title":{"rendered":"PressTV-\u2018Emergency declaration in US still on table&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump may still declare a national emergency in the country to go solo in building a wall on the southern border without a green light from Congress, the White House says.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>During a prime time address to the nation Tuesday night, Trump refused to mention the possibility of declaring a national emergency although he had threatened to do so.<\/p>\n<p>But White House press secretary Sarah Sanders told Fox News on Wednesday that the declaration is \u201ccertainly still an option\u201d and \u201csomething that\u2019s on the table.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re hopeful, again, that they get serious about doing their jobs and work with us to accomplish these things,\u201d Sanders said.<\/p>\n<p>Funding for the wall has been has led to a budget impasse, causing the ongoing partial government shutdown despite several rounds of negotiations with Democrats.<\/p>\n<p>Trump demands over $5 billion, for which he is &#8220;proud&#8221; to have shut down the government but Democrats are not offering more&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.presstv.ir\/Detail\/2019\/01\/09\/585320\/Emergency-declaration-in-US-still-on-table\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump may still declare a national emergency in the country to go solo in building a wall on the southern border without a green light from Congress, the White House says. During a prime time address to the nation Tuesday night, Trump refused to mention the possibility of declaring a national emergency [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-392230","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}