Shutdown Averted, Trump to Declare Border Emergency?

CNN reports on some big immigration news from Washington D.C.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell managed to avert the political disaster of a new government shutdown by securing a pledge yesterday that President Donald Trump will sign a federal funding bill that averts a government shutdown but lacks several billion dollars sought by the President for a US/Mexico border wall. 

The President’s efforts to fund the wall may raise serious constitutional questions. Trump will appear in the White House Rose Garden at 10 am ET to sign the compromise funding bill and announce a slate of executive actions, a White House official said. The plan is expected to include a declaration of national emergency, which he will use to reallocate $8 billion in government money to fund the wall.  Here are some expert opinions on the lawfulness of a presidential exercise of emergency powers.

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