Michael Bastasch | Energy Editor
President Trump recently reaffirmed his right to declare a national emergency over border security funding, and slammed Democrats for politicizing the issue.
He visited McAllen, Texas Thursday, where he toured the border and met with law enforcement on the front lines.
The president held a roundtable with agents,
President Donald Trump gestures as reporters raise their hands while he speaks to the media on the South Lawn of the White House, Thursday Jan. 10, 2019, in Washington, en route for a trip to the border in Texas as the government shutdown continues. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s canceling his trip later this month to a global forum in Switzerland because of the partial government shutdown, now in its 20th day.
The president was scheduled to leave Jan. 21 to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, an annual event that attracts high-profile business and political figures, plus thinkers, artists and other elites. He blamed the cancellation on Democrats in Congress, saying they are not willing to negotiate a resolution to the shutdown, which is hung up on Trump’ demand for money to build a wall on the southern border.
President Trump is threatening to use his executive power to declare the border crisis a national emergency if Congress fails to come to an agreement on funding.
Prior to his departure for Texas, the president insisted a strong border is needed, adding, a wall or steel barrier is essential to border security in order to stop people from entering the country illegally.
The president went on to say he would rather work with Congress in order to secure funding for the wall, however, he is
By Brooke Singman, Alex Pappas
Just one day after he walked out of a contentious White House meeting with Congressional leaders, President Trump is preparing personally to visit the southern border as he continues to contemplate whether to declare a national emergency to fund a wall there.
Trump is scheduled to visit near the U.S.-Mexico border in McAllen, Texas, a city of 143,000 on the river,
By Dick Morris
The pundits who are dismissing President Donald Trump’s national address on Tuesday night are missing two key points:
1. By embedding his discussion of the wall into a broader program of border security, he broadened his base of support.
Polls show that about 40 percent of voters approve of the wall. But 60 percent want more border security. By
The chief of the U.S. Border Patrol in the Obama administration, Mark Morgan, said that he backs President Donald Trump’s effort to secure funding for a wall on the southern border of The United States.
Morgan, who was asked to leave when Mr. Trump took office, made his remarks during a Tuesday interview with Law & Crime.
“I’m here today breaking my silence to tell the American people that
By Eddie Scarry
Now the entire nation knows that congressional Democrats’ main contribution to the debate over illegal immigration is to call President Trump names.
If you didn’t see it live, you might not believe me that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said on national television — carried by NBC, CBS, ABC, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN — that Trump is currently having a “temper tantrum.” And House Speaker Nancy Pelosi,
On Day 18 of the government shutdown, Vice President Mike Pence on Tuesday urged House Republicans to “stand strong” with President Trump as he fights for more than $5 billion for his border wall.
“The president is full steam ahead on this. Not that he isn’t willing to negotiate but he is standing firm,” Pence told rank-and-file Republican lawmakers during a closed-door meeting in the Capitol, according to GOP sources in the room.
By Chuck Ross
The Supreme Court will not intervene on behalf of a foreign-owned company fighting a grand jury subpoena in the special counsel’s investigation, it was revealed on Tuesday.
The Supreme Court upheld a lower court’s decision to force the foreign-owned firm, referred to only as “Company A,” to comply with a grand jury subpoena issued by Mueller in August 2018, according to Politico.
The company resisted the subpoena, claiming that