{"id":396612,"date":"2019-02-21T01:18:48","date_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-can-build-wall-now-despite-states-lawsuit\/"},"modified":"2019-02-21T01:18:48","modified_gmt":"2019-02-21T00:18:48","slug":"trump-can-build-wall-now-despite-states-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/trump-can-build-wall-now-despite-states-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Can Build \u2018Wall\u2019 Now, Despite States\u2019 Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>      <!-- START CONTENT --><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2019\/02\/19\/pollak-trump-can-build-wall-barrier-now-despite-states-lawsuit\/\"><b>Breitbart<\/b><\/a><br \/>February 20, 2019<\/p>\n<p><strong>President Donald Trump can likely begin building new sections of the border barrier, despite a federal lawsuit filed by California and 15 other states on Monday challenging the\u00a0the national emergency declaration he issued Friday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The reason: only some \u2014 about $3.6 billion \u2014 of the roughly $8 billion Trump wants to spend on the barrier actually requires an emergency to be declared in order to be allocated. The rest, theoretically, can be spent regardless \u2014 especially the $1.4 billion Congress approved, though it is subject to some <a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/02\/14\/congress-releases-border-security-bill-that-would-avoid-shutdown.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">restrictions<\/a> that may not apply to the rest of the money.<\/p>\n<p>Conn Carroll, communications director for Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT), explained the reasoning on Twitter Friday:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Some quick notes on early coverage of President Trump&#8217;s announcement today that pretty much all reporters are missing 1\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conncarroll\/status\/1096507435257348096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The WH did not make one executive action today. In reality they made three, only one of which involved an emergency declaration. 2\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conncarroll\/status\/1096507518170394624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First the WH announced they would be funding $601 million in wall construction from the Treasury Forfeiture Fund, relying on 31 U.S.C. \u00a7 9705. This does not require an emergency declaration. 3\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conncarroll\/status\/1096507668850716672?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Second, the WH announced they would be funding $2.5 billion in wall construction under 10 U.S.C. \u00a7 284 (this is MilCon $ for combating drug trafficking). This does not require an emergency declaration. 4\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conncarroll\/status\/1096507717274034177?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Finally, the WH announced they would be funding $3.6 billion under 10 U.S.C. \u00a7 2808. This money does require an emergency declaration. 5\/<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/conncarroll\/status\/1096507763516231685?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 15, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">According to the WH this money will be spent sequentially so the \u00a7 9705 money will be spent first then the \u00a7 284 money then the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.prisonplanet.com\/pollak-trump-can-build-wall-now-despite-states-lawsuit.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BreitbartFebruary 20, 2019 President Donald Trump can likely begin building new sections of the border barrier, despite a federal lawsuit filed by California and 15 other states on Monday challenging the\u00a0the national emergency declaration he issued Friday. The reason: only some \u2014 about $3.6 billion \u2014 of the roughly $8 billion Trump wants to spend [&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-396612","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\/396612","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=396612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}