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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Trump liked the idea of a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option — President Trump liked the idea of declaring a national emergency because it's the maximalist, most dramatic option. — Between the lines: Trump never gravitates towards complexity.
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‘Off the rails’: Inside Trump's attempt to claim victory in his border wall defeat — After three weeks of pained negotiations to keep the federal government open, President Trump almost blew the whole thing up again on Thursday. — Headed for another defeat on his signature promise …
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Washington Post:
Trump's border emergency: Democrats criticize declaration, vow action — President Trump on Friday declared a national emergency as a means to circumvent Congress and build additional border barriers. He is seeking to secure about $6.5 billion more in funding than Congress has approved.
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Nate Silver / FiveThirtyEight:
Trump Keeps Doubling Down On The Same Failed Strategy — President Trump will declare a national emergency and seek money to build a border wall, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Thursday, moments before the U.S. Senate passed a compromise spending bill that didn't include wall funding.
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Victoria Albert / The Daily Beast:
Ann Coulter: National Emergency Designed ‘for Trump to Scam the Stupidest People in His Base’ — Conservative provocateur Ann Coulter fired shots at Trump on Friday for saying he'll sign a bill that would avert another government shutdown and instead declaring a national emergency to build his Mexico border wall.
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Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Fox hosts are so mad at Rubio for opposing Trump's emergency declaration they want his resignation — Two Fox hosts said on Friday that Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) should resign his Senate seat after suggesting that the president should not violate the U.S. Constitution to build a border wall unilaterally.
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Peter Baker / New York Times:
Trump Declares National Emergency to Build Border Wall — WASHINGTON — President Trump declared a national emergency at the border on Friday to access billions of dollars to build a border wall that Congress refused to give him, transforming a highly charged policy dispute into a fundamental confrontation over separation of powers.
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Bloomberg:
Ocasio-Cortez, Joaquin Castro Plan Bill to Block Trump's Emergency Declaration
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Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Republicans pay the price for Trump's wall crusade
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Glenn Thrush / New York Times:
In a Divided Washington, Congress Averted a Shutdown — but at a Price
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Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump asked for a wall. He's forcing a constitutional crisis.
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Sally Kohn / The Daily Beast:
From Executive Time to Emergency Time: It's a Desperate Act of a Desperate Man
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NBC News:
Trump announces national emergency to obtain billions for border wall
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: The national emergency, and how it messes up Washington for Trump
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Washington Post:
An emergency declaration by Trump will lead to lawsuits. Lots of them.
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Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Trump's Face-Saving Way Out of Crisis Raises Fears Over Rule of Law
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Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Trump once called executive action on immigration dangerous, unconstitutional and impeachable
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Melanie Zanona / Politico:
Trump shocks GOP with emergency declaration
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Answers to 4 Key Question About Trump's Declaration of an Emergency
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Eugene Robinson / Washington Post:
We have a national emergency, all right. Its name is Donald Trump.
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Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Bill Weld launches GOP presidential exploratory committee — Announces in NH he's eyeing run against Trump — Former Massachusetts Gov. William F. Weld is launching a presidential exploratory committee to challenge President Trump in the Republican primaries, saying the country is …
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Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld says he will challenge President Trump for the Republican presidential nomination — The president remains popular with Republican voters, but Weld said he would attempt to defeat him or at a minimum hurt him with a primary challenge.
CNN:
Trump may have his first 2020 Republican challenger with former Massachusetts governor
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Washington Post:
Former Massachusetts governor Bill Weld announces plan to challenge President Trump for Republican nomination
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John DiStaso / WMUR:
Live: Republican William Weld announcing launch of presidential exploratory committee
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Robby Soave / Hit & Run:
Reports Claim Jussie Smollet Allegedly Staged Hate Crime Attack; Police Say News Is ‘Unconfirmed, Inaccurate’ — Two local media outlet are now reporting that the assault of Empire actor Jussie Smollet last month may have been a hoax: Smollet himself is suspected of organizing the attack …
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Ishaan Tharoor / Washington Post:
The massacre Trump's envoy to Venezuela wants us to forget — Sign up for the Today's WorldView newsletter. — “I fail to understand,” the congresswoman said at a hearing Wednesday, “why members of this committee or the American people should find any testimony that you give today to be truthful.”
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Greg Miller / Washington Post:
Andrew McCabe's disturbing account of working for Sessions and Trump — Greg Miller is national security correspondent for The Washington Post, a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the author of “The Apprentice: Trump, Russia and the Subversion of American Democracy.”
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Renae Merle / Washington Post:
Mel Watt attempted to ‘coerce’ relationship with employee while FHFA director, IG report says — “Standing up for myself” against the director of a federal agency “has not been an easy thing to do,” the woman said. — Former congressman Mel Watt misused his position when he was director …
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CNN:
Top US general disagrees with Trump over Syria troop pullout — Muscat, Oman (CNN)The US commander who has been leading the war against ISIS told CNN Friday that he disagreed with Donald Trump's decision to pull troops out of Syria and warned that the terror group was far from defeated, in a stark public break with the President.
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Jacob Bacharach / Hmm Daily:
America's Signature Mode of Transportation Is High-Cost Rail — On February 12, California's governor Gavin Newsom announced to the state legislature that plans for America's first high-speed rail project would have to be scaled back. The projected costs of the project …
Brian Krassenstein / Hill Reporter:
“A Profound Mistake” - New Mike Pence Video Surfaces Implying His Real Thoughts Towards Executive Action — With the president expected to officially declare a national emergency, allowing him to pillage other Congressionally allocated funds and repurposed those fund for a wall, a new video has just ironically surfaced.
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Julie Kelly / American Greatness:
After the Coup is Gone — As the perpetrators of one of the most shameful scandals in American political history begin slowly to retreat, we are left to ponder one overarching question: — What now? — The tale we've been told for more than two years—that Donald Trump's campaign team …
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Tim Miller / The Bulwark:
The President Is Hallucinating and I Think We Should Be Concerned — Trump is declaring a fictional emergency to complete a wall he hasn't started in response to an incursion that doesn't exist. It's Wayne Hays in the White House. — Season three of True Detective follows Wayne Hays …
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