Trump said the national emergency to finance the wall with Mexico: "We have an invasion of criminals that is unacceptable"

Resigned to Congress without the approval of the funds after two years in power and without the political capital to force a new administrative closure, Trump announced that he would seek money for the wall elsewhere, including through a national emergency declaration..

"Today, I will sign a national emergency (to get funding for the wall) because we are talking about an invasion of our country by drugs, human trafficking, gangs and people. ;unacceptable", Said Trump in a statement to the press at the White House

"Unfortunately, we will be prosecuted, but in the end, if all goes well, we will succeed," he said, almost resigned to almost certainly legalize this measure.. This statement temporarily gives the president special power to deal with a crisis. In the national emergency, Trump can divert funds from other budget items already authorized by Congress and dedicate them to its border project.

The idea is to combine the budget funds that Congress will approve, with the position authorized by the emergency declaration. This money will use the $ 1.375 million approved by the Capitol to cover 55 km of barriers on the vast US-Mexico border and, thanks to the national emergency, will have various budget items to finance the rest. construction. from the wall with Mexico.

As announced today, it will be a total of $ 8,000 million of what you will need for the controversial border fence. The government's intention is to obtain funding from the Departments of Defense and the Treasury. In total, the administration would transfer $ 6,000 million from the Pentagon ($ 2,500 million of its game for the fight against drug trafficking and $ 3,500 million of its budget for the construction of facilities military) and the remaining 600 million would come from the confiscation fund by the Treasury of Medicines.

For the Democratic leaders of Congress, it is "illegal" to proclaim a "national emergency" announced by President Donald Trump for the construction of the border wall with Mexico, and they badured that such an action would "violate" the Constitution of the United States.

"The president's illegal statement that a non-existent crisis is seriously violating our Constitution and making the United States a less secure country by stealing urgent funds from Defense for the security of our armed forces and our country," said the president. Democrat. the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer, in a joint statement.