It’s still on the table.
After reports over the past couple of days indicated President Trump was waffling over whether to declare a national emergency in order to get his favored border wall, the President on Wednesday said he has an “absolute right” to do so.
“I think we might work a deal, and if we don’t we might go that route,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office during a bill-signing event, according to a White House pool report.
Trump said the “threshold” for declaring an emergency would be if no deal is reached with Congress to reopen the government.
It will float like a Led Zeppelin…
…because every time he does it, breathless stenographers and the occasional reporter immediately rush to shout about it breathlessly.
So…good job, TPM.
And yet, there’s no money for real emergencies . . .
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2019/01/09/trump-threatens-cut-off-fema-aid-california-forest-fires/?utm_term=.c9706b120e1a
Seriously, he said this too and there is no evidence that federal employees support not being paid.