A source close to President Trump tells Jonathan Swan that he thinks “a declaration of a national emergency at the border — which Trump stopped short of last night — remains the most likely ultimate option, because of the latitude it gives the president.”
However, “conservatives, including sources in the conservative legal orbit surrounding Trump, don’t like what they view as an abuse of this authority.”


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