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National emergency in USA
February 17 , 2019
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- U.S. President Donald Trump declared a national emergency to fulfil his pledge to construct a wall along the U.S.- Mexico border on 15 February 2019.
- Now he can access billions of dollars that Congress refused to give him to build a wall on the border of Mexico.
- Declaring a national emergency gives a U.S. president special powers, like suspending certain laws, authorizing military projects single-handedly and re-allocating defence funds.
- Previously, lawmakers voted to fund in the bill for border barriers, about $1.4 billion, is far below the $5.7 billion Mr. Trump insisted.
- Trump’s declaration was unprecedented in that no previous declaration involved circumventing Congress to spend money it had not authorized.
- It is Trump’s third in overall emergency as well as first in Domestic Category.
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