{"id":80355,"date":"2019-02-15T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/02\/15\/trump-to-declare-national-emergency-to-free-up-billions-for-border-wall-live\/"},"modified":"2019-02-15T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-15T14:04:20","slug":"trump-to-declare-national-emergency-to-free-up-billions-for-border-wall-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=80355","title":{"rendered":"Trump to declare national emergency to free up billions for border wall \u2013 live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Trump to speak at 10am in White House Rose Garden as Democrats and some Republicans attack expected declaration as unconstitutional Sign up for the US morning briefing for a fresh perspective 2.04pm GMT Donald Trump\u2019s emergency declaration would hand him about $8 billion to build his wall on the US-Mexico border.That\u2019s $1.375 billion approved by Congress for fences along 55 miles of the Texas border, plus another $6.5 billion he intends to spend without Congressional approval, according to the Washington Post. 1.56pm GMT Donald Trump is prepared to veto any legislation from Congress to block his emergency declaration.On a call with supporters Friday morning, Russell Vought, the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget said that Trump would \u201cabsolutely veto\u201d a bill, the Washington Post reports. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2019\/feb\/15\/trump-national-emergency-news-live-latest-updates-border-wall-mexico-us-politics-today\" target=\"_blank\">Trump to declare national emergency to free up billions for border wall \u2013 live<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trump to speak at 10am in White House Rose Garden as Democrats and some Republicans attack expected declaration as unconstitutional Sign up for the US morning briefing for a fresh perspective 2.04pm GMT Donald Trump\u2019s emergency declaration would hand him about $8 billion to build his wall on the US-Mexico [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=80355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}