US President Donald Trump on Friday declared a national emergency to bypass Congress and spend roughly $8 billion on barriers along the border with Mexico.
“I am going to be signing a national emergency,” Trump said in an address from the Rose Garden.
“It’s a great thing to do because we have an invasion of drugs, invasion of gangs, invasion of people,” the president said in seeking to justify the need for an emergency declaration.
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