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When one of our writers first noted how bad of an idea it would be for the President to declare a national emergency in order to build the wall, we were bombarded with arguments from people that doing so would somehow put the wall in the express lane so it can get done more quickly. This is wrong.
As I ranted about it on Twitter:
The President's advisers know this. They're not trying to solve the border problem. They're trying to solve the government shutdown PR problem. It's the only way they can salvage optics – better known as saving face – and still make it appear that it's not a Democratic win.
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) January 11, 2019
But here's the thing. Declaring a national emergency and trying to build the wall from it will not be the change of battlefields many are proclaiming it to be. Instead, it will be a full retreat. There will be no wall. There will only be 2020 campaign finger-pointing.
— JD Rucker (@JDRucker) January 11, 2019
If you check out the rhetoric being spread about such an action, very little is being discussed about it by Republicans. Even Democrats are quietly hoping he’ll do it. Sure, some of them are preemptively challenging the President on it for the sake of scoring early points, but generally they’re quietly waiting in anticipation. This would be the best way for them to win the government shutdown standoff without having to give up an inch of wall.
And the President’s advisers know this. They’re not looking at this situation as a solution to the wall problem. It’s a solution to the government shutdown problem.
Bottom line: The President must stand his ground on getting the wall funded by Congress. Declaring a national emergency would create so much judicial and bureaucratic red tape, we’ll never see the wall actually built. Stick to your guns, Mr. President.
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