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I will declare emergency to build border wall: Trump

Washington: US President Donald Trump says he'll be declaring a national emergency so he can build a southern border wall.

I will declare emergency to build border wall: Trump

Trump speaks on border wall

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Published : Feb 15, 2019, 11:31 PM IST

Trump speaks on border wall

Trump did not say on Friday when he would make such a declaration, but the move will allow him to bypass Congress to spend more money to erect barriers on the US-Mexico border.

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Congress has given Trump about $1.4 billion for border barriers, well below the $5.7 billion Trump has insisted he needed to build a wall.

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To get around Congress, Trump plans to use his executive authority to tap other sources of funding to get a total of $8 billion to build the wall. The White House says Trump plans to tap accounts in the Treasury and Defense departments, but not money earmarked for disaster relief.

Trump speaks on border wall

Trump did not say on Friday when he would make such a declaration, but the move will allow him to bypass Congress to spend more money to erect barriers on the US-Mexico border.

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Congress has given Trump about $1.4 billion for border barriers, well below the $5.7 billion Trump has insisted he needed to build a wall.

Also Read: China calls for dialogue in Venezuela crisis

To get around Congress, Trump plans to use his executive authority to tap other sources of funding to get a total of $8 billion to build the wall. The White House says Trump plans to tap accounts in the Treasury and Defense departments, but not money earmarked for disaster relief.

RESTRICTION SUMMARY: AP CLIENTS ONLY
SHOTLIST:
ASSOCIATED PRESS - AP CLIENTS ONLY
Washington, DC - 15 February 2019
1. President Donald Trump walks to podium
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"Today, I'm announcing several critical actions that my administration has taken to confront a problem that we have right here at home. We fight wars that are 6000 miles away. Wars that we should have never been in in many cases but we don't control our own border. So we're going to confront the national security crisis on our southern border. And we're going to do it one way or the other we have to do it. Not because it was a campaign promise which it is was, one of many by the way not my only one."
3. Wide of Trump
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"We've done a lot, but one of the things I said I have to do and I want to do is border security because we have tremendous amounts of drugs flowing into our country, much of it coming from the southern border. When you look and when you listen to politicians, in particular certain Democrats they say it all comes through the port of entry. It's wrong it's wrong, it's just a lie. It's all a lie. They say walls don't work. Walls work 100 percent."
5. Various cutaways
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Donald Trump, U.S. President:
"So I'm going to be signing a national emergency. And it's been signed many times before. It's been signed by other presidents from 1977 or so it gave the presidents the power, it's rarely been a problem. They signed it. Nobody cares. I guess they weren't very exciting, but nobody cares. They signed it for far less important things in some cases, in many cases. We're talking about an invasion of our country, with drugs, with human traffickers with all types of criminals and gangs."
7. Wide of Trump at podium
STORYLINE:
US President Donald Trump says he'll be declaring a national emergency so he can build a southern border wall.
Trump did not say on Friday when he would make such a declaration, but the move will allow him to bypass Congress to spend more money to erect barriers on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Congress has given Trump about $1.4 billion for border barriers, well below the $5.7 billion Trump has insisted he needed to build a wall.
To get around Congress, Trump plans to use his executive authority to tap other sources of funding to get a total of $8 billion to build the wall. The White House says Trump plans to tap accounts in the Treasury and Defense departments, but not money earmarked for disaster relief.
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