their own sixteen states to challenge what they see as a cash grab taking disaster relief money to pay for more than two thousand kilometer long vanity project on the mexico border. the wall standoff came to a head on friday when president trump said he would invoke a rarely used power bypassing congress to fund his campaign promise i could do the wall over a longer period of time i didn t need to do this but i d rather do it much faster for his opponents not statement appeared to undermine his case there s a crisis president trump got it right when he said he didn t have to do this but i would now pressure is mounting from within his republican party with senators objecting i think it s a bad idea whether the last currently written permits it or not if it does that i
and in colorado a grass roots show of force in opposition to the u.s. president in colorado we will be on the side of the rule of law. was the end because colorado would give or by this illegal action having laws that are dedicated to peace and here where we will be joining in action to challenge it was there among sixteen states to challenge what they see as a cash grab taking disaster relief money to pay for a more than two thousand kilometer long vanity project on the mexico border. the wall standoff came to a head on friday when president trump said he would invoke a really used power bypassing congress to fund his campaign promise i could do the wall over a longer period of time i didn t need to do this but i d rather do it much faster.
tour fund. $2.5 p billion from the dod drug interdiction program. $2.2 billion reprogrammed from dod2019 appropriation. and another 3.5 billion from the dod s military construction budget. now, it is important to note this does not include any disaster relief money nor the 1.375 billion in the bill that we ve talked about since yesterday on capitol hill when lawmakers decided to come together and create an opportunity to fund the government. it is also important to point this out. white house officials tell us they expect it to end up in the courts. the idea is if he is hoping to claim $8 billion, maybe 4 or 4 1/2 billion doesn t get challenged it would give him a good start. bill: what s the justice department saying about possible litigation next?
the $600 million from treasury is the easy one. they can use it for anything they want. easy to get money from the drug interdiction program. moving some of that money may catch the eye of some folks in congress and may invite a legal challenge. then they absolutely believe that the emergency declaration and tapping into the military construction budget will invite a legal challenge and howls of protest from members of congress who want to see that money go to construction on military bases in their district. one thing that the white house is not going to touch. democrats made a big deal of this over the last few weeks saying the president would tap into disaster relief money. they aren t touching a dime of disaster relief money. they do believe they will end up in court on at least some of this. they think between the dhs appropriation, money that s free and clear they ll end up with $4.6 billion. they want to get the entire
feasible. you could do court challenges, a challenge in court. congress has never ruled back on a national emergency. there are a couple of options. republicans i talked to who are unhappy about this are worried he s going to reprogram disaster relief money either in florida or texas. texas governor, both senators wrote to him in mid january, a day after he said he wouldn t declare a national emergency to say please don t move disaster relief money around. he said please don t move texas disaster relief money. sure. i don t know that they were voicing concern about other states. cnn polling shows 66% are opposed to use a national emergency in order to build a border wall, 31% support it. does this carry significant risk? it takes an unpopular policy and implements it in the least popular way. it seems as though the president seems to take at issue border