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Donald Trump on January 6, 2019 at the White House. – AFP / Archives
Donald Trump will defend Tuesday his controversial project to build a wall on the Mexican border, on the 18th day of the closure of the federal government, partially paralyzed.
Immersed in a fall the president of the United States presented for several days a gloomy picture of a "national security crisis" on the border with Mexico facing the influx of immigrants , while its opponents denounce a deplorable political maneuver to keep an electoral promise.
This first solemn presidential intervention, starting with the Oval Office, the first since taking office, will take place at 21:00 local time (24:00 Brasilia), and will be broadcast live on American television channels.
The question The central point is whether Trump will use the emergency law to ignore the Congress and start, with the support of the armed forces, the construction of the wall.
"It's a possibility" Vice President Mike Pence told NBC on Tuesday. "We need new resources and we have to build the wall."
There are several precedents that raise less controversial questions: George W. Bush after the attacks of September 11, 2001 to increase the resources of the Armed Forces without exceeding the budget, and Barack Obama during the epidemic of H1N1 flu to suspend certain provisions of medical confidentiality.
Such an initiative, implemented through the National Emergencies Act, could be immediately challenged in court and by the Democratic Opposition, which now controls the House of Representatives,
Trump asks a budget of $ 5 million and it is estimated that the federal government will have to pay $ 500 million to the federal government. Billions of dollars in the budget to lift a wall on the Mexican border, which the Democrats reject and call "expensive" and inefficient "immoral". [1965900
"Now that television stations have decided to publish the president's speech (…), the Democrats immediately deserve to be heard," he said. "
-" There is no crisis or invasion "-
" There is no crisis or encroachment "-
There is no crisis, no impingement, no risk identified because the president wants Americans to believe that they are afraid, "said Democratic lawmaker Steny Hoyer.
Pence weekend talks have not advanced. "No progress has been made."
Trump is expected to visit the Mexican border on Thursday to "meet those on the front line."
19659004] Building a wall along the border between the United States and Mexico, 3,200 km long, was one of the promises of Trump's election campaign, linking illegal immigration to organized crime, drugs and even badual violence. [19659006] "We must build the wall, it is the security of our country (…). The controversial bad star Stormy Daniels, who allegedly had an affair with Trump, has proposed an alternative program for the night of Tuesday, for the moment.
"If you're looking for something interesting to see tonight, I'm going to fold my lingerie clothes for 8 minutes on Instagram live," writes Daniels on Twitter.
Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, staged a major scandal last year when she claimed to have had bad with Trump in 2006 at a celebrity golf tournament in Lake Tahoe.
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