democrats passed senate republican legislation to reopen government and find smart effective border security solutions that the president has been jacking these bipartisan bills which would reopen the government over his obsession with works forcing american taxpayers to waste billions of dollars on expensive and ineffective wall a wall he always promised mexico would pay for well ahead of the president s address there was speculation that trump might declare a national emergency allowing him to allocate funds for the border wall without congressional approval but he did not mention that option during his talk you know you washington correspondent stuff and simmons he was his analysis of the president s border wall appeal. in his first formal address to the nation president own trump offered familiar warnings and the expected narrative when making his case for securing roughly six million dollars from congress for his border wall the