Trump threatens to declare national emergency to get funding for border wall: 'I may do it'
President Donald Trump on Friday said that he could take alternative measures, including declaring a national emergency in an effort to bypass Congress to get his long-promised border wall constructed. The Republican also reportedly warned that the ongoing government shutdown could last for months or even years if the Democrats do not agree to his border wall funding demands.
Trump, during a briefing in the Rose Garden after a two-hour meeting with Democratic leaders, said: "Absolutely, we can call a national emergency. I may do it. We can call a national emergency and build it very quickly," warning House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer that he was not backing off from his border wall demands.
The meeting was held concerning the ongoing government shutdown which was imposed after Democrats refused to allow $5 billion to be put in the Congressional budget for Trump's controversial wall on the Mexico border which he promised to build in an effort to keep illegal immigrants at bay.