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May be an inevitability. it s a stand off they don t want to have on policy and just the merits of having to confront the president. right, and this sets up a little bit of what has already happened when it comes to this type of emergency declaration move that the president has done in the past. when that happened last time, i think 12 republicans in the senate broke from the president on this. that s what makes me wonder, tuesday, lunch day for the senate, how big is today? how important is today when they get together? it s very important, and i was just texting with the senior republican in the senate about this very thing, who was very confident that chuck grassley is going to continue to push this. chuck grassley, the senior senator from iowa. also the finance chair, who has been really in the words of this source, ticked off. which he has made very clear on twitter and other statements about the president s move here. ....
What are you learning? well one thing sanders acknowledges moments ago there s nothing in the trump budget request that would force mexico to pay for the wall. she said instead that would be paid for through by mexico through the u.s. mexico trade agreement that has yet to be b approved by congress and there s nothing in the agreement that would actually force mexico to pay for the wall. so what the trump budget instead does is that it forces and tries to encourage congress to approve nearly $9 billion in funding. $8.6 billion to be exact and also, it would fund another 3.$6 for funds to the military reconstruction project. funding of which has been diverted through the president s efforts to declare a national emergency so they can move money around to pay for his border declaration. of course we ll see if the courts uphold that move. he s about to get rebuked by a bipartisan vote this week on an emergency declaration move and ....
Forward on the emergency side could complicate efforts to secure the border. i am confident that he could declare a national emergency, but what that means in terms of adding new elements to this in terms of the court hearings and litigation that may carry this on for weeks and months and years and for me injecting a new element into this makes it more complicate complicated. and so, jim, that is the big question today, what will the administration say to their allies on capitol hill to prevent the defections on the emergency declaration move or to prevent them from voting in large numbers for the democratic efforts to reopen the government. and those are big questions and big reason that the president has a major test before the american people later today. jim. manu rajraja, we know that y will be following this. and joining us now is political correspondent for the new york times mark preston, and cutting ....