(02-15-2019, 09:44 AM)B2hibry Wrote:

(02-15-2019, 09:01 AM)StroudCrowd1 Wrote: Is anybody aware that Trump has already declared 3 national emergencies during his presidency?

Having said that, DT needs to veto this bill. Giving the stipulation of local officials signing off for the approval of wall funding is a non-starter.

Not just Trump but there are currently active emergencies going back to 1975.

https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/07/politics/...index.html

https://www.pri.org/stories/2019-01-11/u...what-means

The bill in its current form needs to be burned. It provides amnesty, puts specific language handcuffing barrier placement/funding, specific language to tie up barrier placement in local courts, cuts off dissemination of illegal activity to all DHS entities specifically ICE, provides funding to place safehouses along border, ecourages trafficing of persons, etc. It contains a ton of dangerous poison pills that we all know once they get funded will rarely if ever go away.

https://congress.gov/bill/116th-congress...on/31/text

If I had to take ANY positive out of it, it would provide choke points at the wall and shine a light on which public officials are in bed with the drug cartels. I mean, can you imagine if Jacksonville were a border city and Lenny Curry refused to build a fully funded wall?

Also, how can any set of human beings be expected to digest the contents of that 1000+ page bill in a single night? Trump needs to sit on this for the weekend and sign a CR if necessary.

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