testifying tomorrow in new york. trump, as you know, was expected to take the stand in his own defense as his company s civil tax fraud trial enters the final week. a short timeo, trump announceinhe long and defiant rant online that he would not be doing so. the former president, as usual, attacking the case, as he quote, rich witch hunt. no matter how much donald trump tries to distract from reality, the facts don t lie. trump had been using the courthouse in new york as a sort of campaign stop, and is already planning rallies in nevada and new hampshire this week. this, as trump s vision for his second term only becomes more extreme. at a fund-raiser last night, trump doubled down on his comments, saying he would be a dictator, but just on day one. his words? they speak for themselves. baker today in the new york times, he said that i want to be a dictator. i didn t say that. i said i want to be a dictator for one day. but the new york times said and you know i i wa
scandal and conceived as tool to rein in presidential power. fast-forward 2019, room to expand his presidential authority. declared national emergency in order to bipartisan congressional opposition and fund the wall. so now both sides are fired up and ready plans to ensure future presidents can t pull a trump-style national emergency. we have to flip this on the head and allow the president to declare emergency for 30 days and if a majority of both chambers agreed to have the emergency extended, that should pass constitution musters, congress are given way too much constitutional authority and we should claw it back. the path forward isn t entirely clear but the legality will be hashed out in court and investigated in hearings, as for veto, both senate and house lacked the vote required to overwrite it.
appetite for a government shutdown. you had people clamoring in the senate particularly for that last time around and now the focus is figuring out how to avert that. the challenge is that there doesn t seem to be great or obvious plan in place to do it, so there is some scrambling going on to try to figure that out. the house is planning to vote tonight to pass this continuing resolution. it would fund the government through march 23. it would provide a year of defense spending and two years for community health centers. it s that year of defense department funding that is potentially the problem. because the senate, senate democrats, have essentially said no way. now, why would that be? it s because it has major impact on a major budget deal they have been working on. democrats essentially want to mark defensive spending levels to defense spending and they re giving away potentially a bargaining chip if they sign off on something like this. the path forward isn t clear here because h