repeatedly suggesting he may declare a national emergency on the southern border to get funding for a wall circumventing congress. democrats could counter that move by suing to block any emergency declaration. doug mckelway has more to explain. doug? good afternoon, dana. it appears the stalled negotiations and bigger bite of the shut down on government workers and services is leading to the president probably making an emergency declaration. i always said it would be the last resort. we re there. there s no pathway forward that i can see. the president believes he has the power. seems to me the only way left is for him to exercise that authority. i don t see any action in congress. legal experts were divided over building a border wall would meet the statutory requirements. whether this is a fast-track decision, if there s any stays required, any orders by the
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fiat. i understand some members of congress would prefer that congress be the one to allocate the funds and the funds be spent on those issues. but i think what you re saying, the president can override the congress on this. actually, i would say that congress has already preauthorized it. congress passed the law which allows the president to move money between budgets once they declare a national emergency. so i think if congress this is really the basic point to get to. if congress doesn t like what president trump is doing, then they have the power of the purse. they can cut out funds or take the money away from next year. dana: tell me if the democrats do sue to block the president from taking this action, how quickly might we get a solution on that? with the muslim ban, it was fairly quick. but in this case, could is it as celebrated because it s an
dana: with no end in sight to the partial government shut down, thousands of workers are not getting a paycheck today. now the cut off funding is having a growing impact. a group of fbi agents says there could be less money for investigations and security clearances. the national park service is losing $400,000 a day in entrance fees. 50,000 tsa agents are working be without pay. all this as federal workers continue to demand congress and the president reach a deal. i m already on a tight budget living in d.c. living here is expensive. you know, not knowing how long this will last, really had to budget as much as i can and to say, okay, how do i not spend anything for weeks at a time? none of us want this. its basically we re subject to the tyranny of a few that are preventing us from continuing
certain point to say we re reasonable on this, we re willing to come off the original offer so they can appear reasonable. dana: what about this idea that president trump could find funds for the national emergency if he does declare one from states that are using money for disaster relief, california, florida, texas and puerto rico? how will that go over? yeah, dear ron desantis. good luck. the beauty of the emergency is that it s not real. so you declare it, doesn t happen. much like the muslim ban. but it doesn t happen. the base is mollified, but time goes on and things work out. look at the pull-out from syria. we re pulling out from syria. we re pulling out when iran is not a threat. so see you in 2050. this administration has a penchant for doing this. you make a big bold statement and then you let the nettlesome work that is in the courts and congress and other things bog it