Trump plans declaring national emergency over border wall

White House searches for shutdown solution without losing face. No Images? Click here   By Paul Vale     Friday, January 11 TRUMP 'TO CALL NATIONAL EMERGENCY' OVER WALL President Donald Trump is laying the groundwork to declare a national emergency to access funds for his promised wall along the U.S.-Mexico border. Sources told The Washington Post and CNN that Trump wants billions of unspent dollars from the Defense Department’s disaster recovery and military construction coffers to build his signature campaign promise. [HuffPost] Tweet | Share on Facebook] TRUMP’S WALL PLAN 'WILL GO TO COURT' The solution to the government shutdown impasse seems to be Trump declaring a national emergency at the border, using a dubious authority to reprogram military construction money for the wall, and then Congress passing clean funding legislation ― without wall money ― while Trump’s executive maneuver gets tied up in court. 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