{"id":394195,"date":"2019-01-26T01:20:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-26T00:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-white-house-drafting-national-emergency-proclamation-to-include-7b-for-border-wall\/"},"modified":"2019-01-26T01:20:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-26T00:20:59","slug":"prison-planet-com-white-house-drafting-national-emergency-proclamation-to-include-7b-for-border-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/prison-planet-com-white-house-drafting-national-emergency-proclamation-to-include-7b-for-border-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"Prison Planet.com \u00bb White House Drafting National Emergency Proclamation To Include $7B For Border Wall"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zero Hedge<\/strong><\/a>
January 25, 2019<\/p>\n

The White House is drafting plans to declare a national emergency along the southern US border which would provide $7 billion in potential funds for President Trump\u2019s long-promised border wall, according to\u00a0CNN<\/em><\/a>\u00a0\u2013 citing internal documents we hope are more accurate than\u00a0BuzzFeed<\/em>\u2018s.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Trump has not ruled out using his authority to declare a national emergency and direct the Defense Department to construct a border wall as Congress and the White House fight over a deal to end the government shutdown. But while Trump\u2019s advisers remain divided on the issue, the White House has been moving forward with alternative plans that would bypass Congress.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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\u201cThe massive amount of aliens who unlawfully enter the United States each day is a direct threat to the safety and security of our nation and constitutes a national emergency,\u201d a draft of a presidential proclamation reads.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow, therefore, I, Donald J. Trump, by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C 1601, et seq.), hereby declare that a national emergency exists at the southern border of the United States,\u201d the draft adds.<\/p>\n

The draft was updated as recently as last week, a US government official told CNN. \u2013CNN<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

According to the plans, the administration could use $681 million from treasury forfeiture\u00a0funds, $3.6 billion in military construction, $3 billion in Pentagon civil works funds and $200 million in funds from the Department of Homeland Security.<\/p>\n

If Trump declares a national emergency, the US Army Corps of Engineers would construct the wall \u2013 which\u00a0CNN<\/em>\u00a0then suggests might set the stage for potential lawsuits over eminent domain land seizures. The documents also convey a sense of urgency \u2013 as the draft reportedly allows for the wall to be built without environmental reviews, while DHS would…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Zero HedgeJanuary 25, 2019 The White House is drafting plans to declare a national emergency along the southern US border which would provide $7 billion in potential funds for President Trump\u2019s long-promised border wall, according to\u00a0CNN\u00a0\u2013 citing internal documents we hope are more accurate than\u00a0BuzzFeed\u2018s. Trump has not ruled out using his authority to declare […]<\/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-394195","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\/394195","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=394195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394195\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}