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Can President Trump Declare an Emergency to Build Border Wall?

February 19, 2019

Via: FindLaw

Donald Trump campaigned on border security. One of his first executive orders as president directed “the immediate construction of a physical wall on the southern border.” And he allowed the federal government to shut down for three weeks to secure funding for wall construction. Now, according to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Trump plans to declare a state of emergency at the southern border to finally get what he wants.

But does the president actually have the authority to force funding of the border wall?

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